St. John's Analyst

J. OHNS NALYST
November 1929
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Publi s hed by the Faculty and Students of St. John's College School of Accounting, Commerce and Finance
and by Contri bu t ing Speciali sts.
Vol. III. November, 1929 No. 1
Editors
Day Divisio11
VINCENT R. PINTO
Night Dii•ision
DAVID ScI-IERER
School N ews
CI-IARCES J. E DGETTA
Art
BEN.I AM IN BABl3Y
I-I w11or
J\'1ARVIN LYDING
B usiness
ARTHUR BLUMEN
Sports
CHARLES ROTHMAN
Reportorial Staff
Secretarial
MARION vv 1LoER
BERYL NEAL
ALLAN B EATTIE
DONA MARINO
HARRY 'vVILLIA:WS
LAWRENCE LEVY
HARRY E ICHORN
I SIDORE U'r c ovrrz
LEWIS MERINGOLO
MAX MELTZER
BENJAMIN H UROWITZ
J OSEPH LONGOBARDI
SARAH D OMBECK
SIDNEY GOLDBERG
HARRY SILBER
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Contents
Sports
Fra t ernities __ _________ _____________ ____________________ _
Hun1or _______ __ _________ __ ___ _____________ __ _____ - - - ---
B. ·d' E -..r . 11 s ye , 1ew - ----------- ---- ---------------- ------- --
Klass Kracks ------------- - - ----- --- - ------------------ ­'
Newsy" Notes of the Classes - --------- ------------------ ­Nev.
r York C. P . A Act ---- --- --- ------------- - - -·-- -------
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4 ST . JOHN'S ANALYST
St. John's See Little Chance of
Fordham Game?
The basketball g-amc betweell St.
John's College anl. Fordham Univer­sity,
which annually develops into one
of the major court classics of the East.
will not materialize this year un less
athletic authorities of the two insititu­tions
can come to an agreement before
long. Last year the college court
championship of the East hinged upon
the outcome of the game which tile
then undefeated Fordham team won bv
a margin of three points on its ow~1
court.
Disagreement concerning the scene of the
game is the main ca use of the trouble. For many
seasons St. John's has journeyed to the Ford.ham
gym only to taste defeat on each occasion,
though sometimes by a sl im margin indeed. Sup­porte
rs of the Brooklyn team contend that such
would not be the case if a home-and-home series
was arranged or if the game was played on a
neutral court.
Fordham has steadfastly refused to leave its
own bailiwick and recently turned clown the re­quest
of Ray Lynch, athletic director of St.
J ohn's. to have the game played on some other
court this season. Both Fordham and St. John's
make use of aibnormally sized court for their
home games, the St. J ohn's fl oor being decidedly
on the small side, while the court on which the
annual game has been played for several season
at Fordham, is numbered among the largest rn
the country and presents a problem to players
not used to it.
Failure to agree on the distrib ution of the
"gate" is another contributing cause to the rup-
1.,ire. Last year the game attracted a crowd
e;st imated in exce of 8,000 people to the F rel ­ham
game and St.John' wa rewarded with one
t!iirtieth of the receipt ·. The Fordham authori­ties
refu eel to better the figure for this year's
uame.
Football
Our football team has alre2.dy
engaged in seven contests. :oach
Ray Lynch has put a ham-run­ning,
offensively aggre~sive team
on the field this season. The
team has imnrovecl with each
succeeding ga1;1e. There is a pos-sibility
of the Red and White
emerging victorious in its remaining games
with Providence, St. T homas, and De Paul.
The last two games are to be played at our
new home field, Dexter Park.
In their first game, the Reclmen held the
po,yerful Holy Cross combinatioi1 scoreless for
the first half before bowing, 19-0, when the Holy
Cross backs, driven almost to desperation by the
unexpected resi stance, threw several long passes
that found their marks. The power of the Hol_v
Cross team may be visualized when it is recalled
that the u111beaten Fordham team only defeated
the Worcester lads, 7-0.
St. Johns looked really fo rmidable in defeat­ing
Drexel in P hiladelphia by a score of 14 to 7.
A complete change of attack crossed the Slow­towners,
w,ho had scouted the Holy Cross garn(',
and so Coach Lynch proved that scouting is not
always of any advantage to a team. It might be
well to note right here that since this game,
Drexel has defeated the City College eleven b
the score of 6-4. A word to the wise is suffi cient.
The Reel and 11 bite was defeated by Niagara
University, 19 to 14, in a game replete \Vith
thrills that kept the stands on edge throughout
the game. The thrills were supplied by the won­derful
aerial attacks which 1both teams used to
the utmost advantage. The Reclmen led 14 to 0
in the first quart.er, but in the second quarter
their inability to stop long passes hurled by Sni­der
of the vi itor s. res ulted in their downfall.
In the second half, neither team was able to
1 reak through for a score.
Incidentally. the School of Commerce is well
represented on the Football Squad. Harry
Meyers, one of the fla shiest broken field runner.
ST. JOHN'S ANALYS ;-f 5
ever developed in the city high schools, is the
regular quarterback. Alfred Gallo, one of the
few ten-second men \\·ho pe rform n the gnd­iron,
showed his versatile aibility in the l\Ian­hattan
game. Previous to this game Gallo was
the regular halfback, but clue to the lack oi e1~"·'
Coach Lynch assigned him to play encl. An,l
how he did play it! Another star encl on the
team is Ray l\1ann, whose steady work as a
wingman has brought him great praises from
all who have seen him perform. Others from
ur school are Kaplan , Satz and Lycl ing.
From the 57-20 setback received at the hands
of Lehigh at Bethlehem it would appear that \\·e
were badly beaten. However, when one con­siders
that the Vincentians made five fumble~ .
which were subsequently turned into touch­clo,
Yns, and that the strong University of Penn­sylvania
aggregation only defeated Lehigh by
the slim margin of a field goal, it is apparent
that we were not disgraced.
T,he best brand of football that the team has
yet displayed was exhibited in the l\1anhattan
game. Seeking revenge for the 14-7 defeat sus­tained
last year, the Reel and "\Vhi te repul sed the
Jaspers convincingly and completely. Every
man fJ layed in spirational football. T he whole
team was "up and at 'em". Abe l\1argo!ic; ,
fla shy all scholastic halfback from New Utrecht,
who has acquired the sobriquet of "helmetless
horseman," led the attack on the visitors \\·ith
two touchdowns. Ray l\Iann and l\Iac Kins­brunner
scored the other touchdown s. In c1se
you have forgotten, the final sco re w.1s 26-7.
Loyola scored a surpri sing victory over the
Red and vVhite in a game which was feat ured
by forward passing. Evidently a,\·are of the
inability of the Vincentians to prevent passes
from reaching their destination. the Loyola team
resorted to that offensive and succeeded in scor­ing
three touchdowns. T.he final score was 20-7.
The Loyola game was expected to bring another
victory to the li st of the team. Instead, the
Baltimore lads reversed the result of last year's
game. vVell, an easy victory over City wiJI
destroy the stigma of defeat.
"\i\ ell, nothing else matters. vV e are practi­cally
assured of a successful footba ll season as
a result of the very decisive victory over City
College, •by the score of 25 to 0. By virtue ot
the defeat of the Lavender. the championship of
the "Little Three," which is comprised of Man­hattan,
City College, and St. J ohn's, is brought
t the Reel and "\i\Thite.
This was the first time that St. John's and City
~ollege met on the gridiron. May all succeed­mg
games between both in st itutions result in
such easy victories for St. John'·. To make the
defeat more hurnilating, the Vincentians beat
City at their own game, forward passing. And
what a powerful forward passing attack we
exhibited. Out of twenty-two attempted passes,
fifteen \\·ere completed, averaging from ten to
fifteen yards each. Suc.h an aerial attack could
hardly have been excelled by other elevens. Af­ter
the regulars had scored a total of nineteen
points in the fir st half. the substitutes played the
remainder of the game. Stephens and Margolies
starred for the Reel and "\i\fhite. Incidentally, the
game was played before 10,000 spectators at
Lewisohn Stadium. There are two home games
left on the schedule. Give the team your whole­hearted
support and encourage it on to victory.
Attend the St. Thomas, and De Paul games at
Dexter Park! All ready? Let's go!
Soccer
Most of us are unaware of the existence of
our soccer team. The interest manifested toward
the team by the students is suffi cient to discour­age
the most ardent playe r. Neverthel ess, our
soccer team has improved greatly over la st
) car's. Four games have already been played.
Two were victo ries and two resulted in defeat s.
The victories were achieved at the expense of
the German Field Club, 7-2, and the Panser
Teachers College, 2-1. The def ea ts were received
at the hands of two powerful teams. Lehigh
cour nemesis?) beat us, 7-2, and Army required
two extra periods to clown us, 3 to 2.
Here and There With the Bench Warmers
Bill Paige formerly of St. John's is playing a
~tellar game for the Brooklyn Visitations.
Captain l\Iax Posnack is regarded by t he
sporting writers as one of the greatest all­round
basketball players in the country.
St. John's inaugurated football in 1924 with
an undefeated season. Fordham was among the
vanquished.
"Bob" Damm, formerly of St. John's High, in
a baseball game with Hoboken High, struck out
thirty men in twelve innings.
Eddie Dooley, now coaching foot ball at St.
J ohn's1 was an All-Easterp quarterback at Dart­mouth.
Jimmy "Rip" Collins last year's basketball
captain has joined the Crescent Club.
John F . Blake, a professor, whom most of us
have had. \Yas an all-round athlete at Niagara
University .
"Taps" Gallegher, who is the coach of Basket­ball,
Baseball, and Football at St. John's High
School, is a student at the Law School.
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6 ST. JOHN'S ANALYST
Upper Classmen
We are an intellectual lot
Of k nowledge we have plenty.
T here is no more that we can learn
Our cranium's not empty.
The wise professor tries and tries
To make us more intelligent
The task is quite impossible
And also is irrelevant.
'vVe come to class I k now not why
We know what's to be learned,
There's nothing new in lecture room
As far as we're concerned.
For we know a thing or two,
And to tell us what to do
Is qui te impertinent I say,
For we know a thing or two .
Familiar Sig hts . .. Bill Satz seen nearly al­ways
chastising a freshman ... funny that way
. . . Rotund Blumen and his Kiddie Kar . .. has
to open both doors. to get seated ... Nonchalant
Dave Huck becoming more nonchalan t ... Jack
Nutley getting handsomer and handsomer ...
Charl ie Rothman's way of dre sing ... Charlie
E cigette recommending Rockville enter as the
ideal place to live ... reminds me of the fact
that a few of tl;e fellows have become "traveling
salesmen" . .. that is, candy butchers to and from
Long· I sland .. . Marion \ i\Tilcler coming late to
class . ..
Among the Profs ... Wonder whether Pro­fessor
Nelson spells problem P-R-0-H-B-L-E-M
... lf all the ta le· Professor Hewes t ell s were
laicl encl to encl they probably woulcl make the
months best seller ... 'vVonder if Professor
Harper is ever wrong ... \i\There our law pro-fessor,
Mr. Felclman, buys hi s charming shirts
and t ies .. .
Likes ... The secretaries in the office ... The
new builcling ... That janitor. Frank. on our
floor .. . The o•blig ingest man as it were . .. That
certain co-eel ... The other chap's cigarettes.
Dis1ikes ... That evening class, in H istory of
Education .. . Manny Moscowitz ... sing in g . . .
Sam Scherer accompanying ... Some too con -
spicuous chaps . .. The exit and entrance we are
forced to make ... This column . . . That's all . ..
Lower Sophomore Meeting
An informal meeting of the lower sophomore
class was held in room 705 on W eclnesclay, Octo­ber
29. Salvatore Salamone acted in his official
capacity as the new president.
The class is so rry to inform t he students that
Harry Dubin was forced to leave school because
of illness. It was decided to present Harry with
an appropriate gift. Liberal contributions were
received for that purpose.
The class has not yet cleciclecl whether to hold
a smoker or da nce this semester.
Sidney Goldberg.
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ST. JOHN'S ANALYST 7
A Pilgrimage to Canterbury
"And specially from every sh ire ·s ende
Of Engeloncle to Caunturbury they wencle
The holy blisful martir for to se ke ."
So wrote Chaucer in the fourteenth century.
For more than two hundred years before Chau­cer'
time, however, the shrine of the "holy
blisful martir," Thomas A. Becket-the great
Archbishop whose genius had dominated all
England, and who had been brutally slain on the
teps of the Cathedral altar-had been the Mecca
of thousands of pilgrimages. Through the olcl
city gates had passed an endless stream of pil­grims-
from kings and queens who came to lay
their royal crowns at the martyr's tomb to the
humblest and poorest folk in the land.
In Chaucer's day the journey was lono· ancl
perilous. His company of pilgrims, st~rting
from the Tabar cl Inn in London, tra veiled on
horseback for five weary days before they
reached St. Thomas' shrine. Today's pilgrim
takes a taxi from his hotel to Victoria Station,
and from there an express train whizzes him to
Canterbury in exactly two hours and twenty
minutes!
The first impression one gets of Canterbury is
that of utter peace and serenity. The terraced
lawns, the long aisles of stately trees, the
crumbling old ivy-covered wall s, the rrabled
houses, and rising a·bove all, the towers ~f the
magnificent cathed ral, combine in ma kin o- ·an
unforgettable picture. One follows the na;row,
winding streets, past quaint old shops with their
quainter old signs, until he enters Mercery Lane,
and then passing through Christ Church Gate
(where_ Chaucer passed six hundred years ago)
finds himself at last in the Cathedral courtyard.
The Cathedral is always thronged with visi­~
ors. Long since stripped of its treasures, the
mt~rior seems bare and cold, and only in imagi­nation
can be seen the color and light and radi­ance
that once was there. Yet scores of rever­ent
pilgrims are gazing at the scene of Becket's
martyrdom, or at the crypt where once his body
lay.
Next to the venerated shrine of St. Thomas,
the object of greatest interest is the tomb of
Edward, the Black Prince (the Prince of \i\Tales
of Chaucer's day) who at the age of sixteen was
a gallant vvarrio r, and at twenty-seven captured
the King of France. Above his tomb hang his
sword and shield, his gauntlets, and his ru sty
armor. Groups of hero-worshipping small boys
gather here, talking in awed whispers.
. Emerging once more into the sunlight, the
pilgrim makes his way clown the High Street and
mto the heart of the city. Here the lover of
Dickens finds himself on familiar ground for
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Canter,bury was Dicken's favorite city, and he
refers to it in his novels again and again.
"It was at Canterbury," says Mr. Mica,Yber,
"Canterbury, my native heath, where we last
met. \i\Tithin the shadow, I may figuratively say,
of that r eligious edifice immortalized by Chaucer,
which was anciently the resort of pilgrims from
the remotest corners; in short, in the immeclia te
neighborhood of the cathedral."
And sure enough, directly opposite the Christ
Church gate stands the old Sun Inn where the
Micawbers lived in times of prosperity, and
where, in the presence of David, Aunt Betsey,
and Tommy Traclclles, Micawber dramatically ex­posed
'(the villain HEEP".
Not far from the cathedral precints we locate
the Kings School, the oldest school in England .
Here Dickens sent little David Copperfield, and
it is of him that we think as we look at the ivied
walls and the quaint old buildings. Near \i\Test­gate
we may find "the house of Agnes," where
David first meets her. 'vVe n :cognize it from
Dickens' description. "The house bulged over
the road; a house with long, low lattice windows
bulging out still further. It was quite spotless
in its cleanliness. The old--fa shioned brass
knocker on the door twinklecl lik e a star, the two
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8 ST . JOHN'S ANALYST
Delta Psi Upsilon
Delta Psi Upsil on opens its " ·inter season " ·ith
the a nnouncement of its Holiday Dance to be
held at the Hotel Bosse rt. Friday eve ning, De-cember
27, 1929. .
Last June, Delta P si Upsi lon me rged with
Gamm Delta Gamma, a frat ernity which had
operated in the night division. The new Delta
Psi Upsilon offic ers a re :
Cha rl es Davidsen -------------- Presid ent
\Yilliarn \i\Tea ry ---------------- Trea surer
DaYicl Huck ____________________ Secretary
H. GIil l\Ian1fo ld ___________ Vice-President
J ack Nutl ey -- ------------- Vice-Presid ent
Allan Beattie ---- --- ----------- -- \ i\Tarclen
Thomas McHale ---------------- \ i\Tarden
In ~he _near _future the fraternity expects to
es tablish it self 111 quarters close to t he school for
the co1w eni ence of its members.
Sigma Omega Psi
Th~. Sigma Omega Psi Fraternity began the
act1Y1ties of the new term by holding its regular
smoker at the Hotel Martinique.
SeYeral leading men of the various chapters
spoke_ upon the histo ry of the fratern ity, its
meamng and, benefits. Among those contribut­ing
,,·ere Professors Nelson, and Hewes, H onor­ary
members, Henry Holzman; Freel Kat z,
Grand Scribe; and Sid Korn, former High Poten­tate
at~- Y. U.
Eight men were pledged as follows: Max
I\erzner, P hilip Spitz, Leo \i\Teiss, I srael Kaplan,
Sidney Eclenbaum, 1urray Bernstein, Abe Hill­sig,
and Oscar Hertz.
It i expected that 111 ore new men will be
pledged at another smoker to be held at a future
elate.
Sigma Omega P i has leased a new home for
the benefit and e nj oyment of its £raters.
The "Shield", t he regular publication of the
fraternity has been taken over by the chapter
at St. John's College, and if the fi rst issue can be
used as a crite rion, future successes can be easily
assured.
At the recent election of office rs, the follow ­ing
frate rs were returned victorious : Hic,h
Potentate, \ i\Tilliam B. Satz; Potentate, B~n
Stern; Bursar, Arthur Blumen; Recording
Scnbe. Paul Factor; Guardian of the P ortals
Le,,·is ~I. Rosenberg . '
Sigma Omega Psi ( psilon Chapter) has been
adjudged at a r ecent council meeting the most
active and promising chapter in the fraterni ty.
Si~·ma Omega Psi has twenty-t hree chapters
with prospects of ne,,· chapters at Yale a ,1cl
Bates Colleges.
Alpha Kappa Phi
The Alpha Kappa Phi fraternity is now hold­ing
meetings regularly at its fraternity rooms on
State Street.
Pleclgees, Jack Cohen and Murray Sherman,
were indu cted as £raters with appropria te ce re­monies
at the last meeting.
Elections \Yere held with the following r e-sul
t s :
Master ------------------ Sidney Goldberg
Bursar-- ---- ----------- - -- Noah Jacowitz
Scribe ---- - --------------- Harry Mircoff
A gold key was presented to Seymour Candee,
past-master, for his able work and service clur­i
ng his te rm of offi,ce.
The fraternity is sorry to say that one of our
brothers, Max Melnick , was forced to leave the
school for a short t ime because of illness. He is
now at his home in Rochester.
Alpha Kappa P hi is now negotiating ,Yith sey­eral
na tional fratern ities for affil iation.
'Nalter Gavagan. Professor of E ng li sh, is our
fa culty advisor.
Sigma Alpha Chi
T he St. J ohn's Chapter of Sigma Alpha Chi
held its first formal meeting of t he season at tbe
frat ernity rooms. The order of dispensing lrn si­ness
was s tarted \Yith th e election of new offi­ce
r s.
David Siegler ,yas elect ed to succeed Harry
Berkowitz as Chancellor; Jack Rosenberg suc­ceeds
Hy Poclber as Scribe; and Harry Klein
succeeds Irving Morganstern as Bursar.
Harry Berkowitz. the outgoing Chancellor.
was appointed chief executive ach,isor.
The order voted the outgoing officers a well
earned thanks for the manner in whi ch they
executed business.
The social as \Yell as the business affa irs of
t he fraternity ,Yere mapped out fo r the ens uing
year, and it is thought that with the influx of
new students, from \Yhich a larger cho ice can be
made fo r new members, the fraternity is bound
to become an eYen stronger organization than
it is at present.
Sophomore : " \\.hat is your greatest ambi-tion,
Frosh?"
Freshman : "To die a year before you do."
Sophomore : "\Yhat's the reason for that?''
Freshman: "So I will be a Sophomore in hell
\\"hen you get ther e."-\ Vhirlwind.
ST. JOHN'S ANALYST 9
Moving
Slo,,·ly through the fo re st, lit by moon a lone
l\loYes the silent r ider
On horse less fl esh than bone.
Bumping o'er the pra irie, de olate and bleak,
\Yest,yarcl toward the bright sun
The coye red \Yagons creak.
J olting on the post-road-silent, black at night,
Thoughts of fear and hatred
The stage-coach travelers fight.
P ushing past the landscape-pictures that are
real,
Speeds the locomotive
On endless rai ls of st eel.
Racing on the highway, smooth and clean and
"·icle,
Streams of speeding motors
In face of danger rid e.
Thrill ing high above us, clouds and earth belo,Y,
Seeing all t he world at once
T he daring fliers go.
}-Im· ing ever onward, fo rward to,Yard the goal,
Round and round and round and r ound
The ,,·heels of progress rol l.
Sarah E ngel, A- 19 16.
Analyzing the Shows
WITH SA1\1UEL SCHER
"Sweet Adeline"
"Sweet Adeline" is a g reat -big, bea utiful musi­cal
comedy of the gay ninetie s, ri ch in swinging
music well sung, beautiful girls, hil a rious com­edy,
smart ly rics and of course, Helen Morgan.
The book is a new twist of the cinclerella theme,
but unlike most musical comedy books this one
is believable. J erome Kern has written a tune­ful
scor e and Mr. Harbach's ly rics provide Miss
l\lorgan with a good many excellent songs. Miss
:i\1organ exhibits an ability never befo re accorded
her, she sings several songs with ·both feet on
the ground and really proves t hat a piano as a
seat is superfluous.
La Morgan is supported by an able cast, all
speciali sts in their r espective lines. Mr. Ham­merstein
has not stinted, the chorus is well­trainec1
and made up of a great many beautiful
ladies, and with the exception of one other is
the best dancing choru s to ,be fo und in the city.
T here are no less than three juveniles, Messr s.
J ohn Seymour, Robert Chisholm and Max Hoff­man,
Jr. Comedy is provided by Irene Franklin,
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HUMOR (?)
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BA'l'HTUB V ARIE1'Y
"Gordon," said the genealogist, "is Scotch."
The goofy one looked surpri sed. "I thought
it ,,·as gin," said he.
An opportuni st is a man who finding himself
in hot water decides that he needs a bath any­\\
·ay .
A \Yorlcl \\.ar veteran says it may be true that
the next ,,·ar \Yill be fought in the air, but thank
goodness, cooties can't fly.
DEF I N ITlONS
Detour-A turn for the worse.
Legs-They used to be snapshots; now they're
time expos ures.
GOSSIPS
First Drunk: "You know, my friend, I never
tell secrets to horses. Do you know why?"
Second Drunk: "Nope."
First Drunk: "They carry tales."
It has Yery often been stated that a camel can
go ten days without a drink. But, my clear
friend s, \\·ho in hades wants to be a camel?
l\Iarriage may not soothe a troubled mind but
at least it g iyes one something new to worry
about.
Rrn-Trn-Trn
"l\Iy husband has disappeared," she said to the
man at the desk in the police station. "This is
his portrait. I want you to find him at once."
The inspector looked up from the photograph
and asked, "\\Thy?"
"Our eggs are strictly fresh," advertises a
nimble-witted grocer. "If they were any fresher
they \Youlcl be down- right impertinent."
There are few Americans who have not yet
seen an automO'bile, but plenty who have not
seen one soon eno ugh.
Fox PASS
" l\Iy ne\\· s,yeetie is a reg'lar swell," remarks
Gerti e. "Last night he took me to a restaurant
and poured his tea into a saucer to cool it; but
he didn't blow it like common people do, he
fanned it 1Yith his hat."
Jane: "That was a terrible thing you did . GiY­ing
your wife a bum check."
Jack: "\ \Thy? It was ·better than giving her
a good one."
It is quality not quantity that counts. You
have never yet seen a centipede in the Follie s.
Sometimes silence is impressiv e, and om e­times
it is expressive; but to most women it is
oppressive.
Lady Tourist: "\\There did all those big round
rocks come from?"
Tired Guid e : "The glaciers brought them
here."
L. T.: "But where are the glaciers?"
T.G.: "They have gone back for more rock s.'·
Some footba ll players tackle low, and some
fo rget the kind of a aame it is and reach fo r the
neck.
An Irish applicant fo r a job on the police force
was taking an examination. To the question.
"\ i\That is rabies, and what can be done about
it?" He wrote: "Ra'bies is J ewish priests, and
you can't do nothin' about it."
Grandmother never imagined that she would
live to see the time when her daughters would
get sunburned on the places they do now.
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ST. JOHN'S ANALYST 11
A Pilgramage to Canterbury
( Continued from Page 7)
stone steps were as white as fine linen, and all
the a ng les, and co rners, and carvings, and moLl­ings,
and quaint little panes of glass though old
as the hills, \\·ere as pure as snow."
The 'umble 'ome of Uriah Heep, supposed to
ha,·e been located in North Lane, has long since
been destroyed, but imagination comes to our
aid, and we select one tiny cottage at the encl of
the lane, and try to picture the wily Uriah at the
d oorway, smirking, and ru,bbing his hands.
Xot far from North Lane, on a beautiful
stretch of velvet lawn, and with a background
of silver beeches, stands a monument to Christo­pher
Marlowe, son of a poor Canterbury cobbler,
"·hose shop stood in the yery shadow of the
cathedr a l. Gamester, spendthri ft, and genius,
,niter of plays second only to those of Shake­speare,
whose devoted friend he was, Marlowe
m et a tragic death at the age of twenty-four.
Lengthening shadows tell the traveler that it
is getting late, and that he must hurry to catch
the train back to London. The train leaves the
station just as the vesper bells begin ringing·, and
as the traveler looks back at the fast-disappear­ing
city he gets his last glimpse of the gray tow­e
r: and spires of the cathedral, and hears the last
iaint echoes of the bell, he feels that this has
been one of the great clays of his life, and will
be one of the loveliest of memories.
Sarah Engel, A-1916.
Women's Club
The ·women's Club takes this opportunity to
11·elcome the new freshmen girls. At a recent
meeting, many freshmen \\·ere initated into the
dub. T he purposes of this organization are to
i1elD one another ecl,ucationally and socially.
Elections were held recently. Marion \ i\Tilder
was unanimously reelected president; Dona C.
::\Ia rino, former treasurer, was elected vice­president;
Esther Rosenberg, former secretary,
\\"a S elected treasurer, and Edith 'vVecker was
elected secretary. They \\"ere duly installed at
a Hallowe'en Party that was g iYen in their honor.
The E ntertainment Committee, consisting of
Sarah Dombeck, Rose Chernoff, l\Iar ion \ i\Tild_er
and Dona Marino, is planning the club's soe1al
a ctiYities whi ch will include bridge-parties,
theatre parties, teas and luncheons.
Dona Marino should be lauded. Although
she is only an embryo br idge player, she made a
o-ran cl slam at a recent social meeting of the
fYo men's Club. A chall enge has been extended
to other embryos to accomplish t his feat.
In passing. the \ i\Torn en's Club \Y ishes to thank
::'1Ir s. ·Wilder and Mrs. Mandelsberg w ho gener­o
usly cont rib uted delicious cakes.
:-Iay S. Dworin.
Analyzing the Shows
(Continued from Page 9)
Charles Butterworth, Violet Carl son and Robert
Emmet Keane.
The action takes place in the la st years of the
nineteenth century when men \\·ere men, and
collegia tes sported turtle-neck s\\·eaters.
The book deals with the ri se of Acleli1.1e
Schmidt (Helen Morgan) . She is the daughter
of a Hoboken beer garden proprietor and has
a spirations to the stage and al so to a place in the
heart of Midshipman Tom l\Iartin (l\1ax Hoff­man,
Jr.). Musical comedy librettos are not
musical comedy librettos unless complications
ensue. This is no exception and complications
do r ise. The complications, ho,yeyer, in this case,
are a godsend, for they give l\Ii ss l\Iorgan an
opportunity to become tragic and sing Mr. Kern's
music in her own inimitable manner. The com­plication
in this case is Adeline's si ster, Caryl
Bergman, who also .has designs on the handsome
l\lr. Martin. Miss Schmidt, the younger, is an
ardent adherent of the North,Yest Mounted
slogan, "get your man", she gets him as you 110
doubt have g uessed and gives Adeline a chance
to war ble "Here Am I". l\1r. l\Iartin goes to
,1·ar, the Spanish American 'vVar, of which you no
doubt have heard. Adeline's sister is a •one-man
woman, one man at a time, and she immediately
makes a new conquest; enter complication num­ber
two, Robert Emmet Keane. l\Ir. Kea1:ie
plays the part of a burlesque troupe manager,
and husband of the star. Adeline suspects that
l\I r. Keane does not mean well by our little Nell
and she goes to the burlesque theatre to make
these facts known to the burlesque queen, Irene
Franklin. She meets t he Day brothers, Rupert
and Tom, Charley Butterworth and Robert Chi s­holm.
Jake, the orchestra leader Q ohn Sey­mour)
hears Adeline sing and penmts her to
warbl~ his pet composition. "\i\Thy \Vas I Born" .
Miss Morgan straddles a piano and enchants the
audience with her rendition of this Kern master­piece.
Tom Day and Jake become ~namoured :)f
Adeline. Dot, Adeline's friend. V10let Carson.
falls in love with Rupert Day. Thus encleth act
the first.
The second act finds Adeline a great star, and
the toast of New York. Tom Martin suffers a
change of heart and woos Adeline but she find s
that she really loves Tom Day. T he encl of the
act finds Adeline in the lucky l\Ir. Day's arms.
Rupert in Dot's arms, and Addie's sister in Tom
Martin's arms.
Due credit must be given the comedians and
comediennes for the success of the play. \ Ve
can safely say that the performances of C_ha rl es
Butterworth Violet Carlson, Irene F rankl111 and
RO'bert E m1-r:ett Keane are the best of their suc­cessful
careers.
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By ACORN
\Vhile walking along \i\Tall treet you have to
keep looking up fo r f ear that some broker jump­ing
out of the window will hit you on the head.
T here are three classes of women : the in te l­lectual,
the beautiful, and the majority .-Fla­m111go.
They told him to come fo rth, but he came fi fth
and escaped pyorrhea.
The r efrigerators replaced the ice-box but the
iceman still remain . . . cause you can't take
away the things that were made fo r love.
Allan Beattie thinks he is a ma n because he has
a mustache ( ?)
"Oh, no dear, I'm sure he is a kind man, I just
heard him say that he put hi s shirt on a horse
that was scratched."
In the good old clays before prohibition you
t ook one drink and looked for more. N owaclays
you take one drink and you can't see any mor e.
By the way-Aaron Levy is still looking for
· a job.
Ethel sure is dumb-she thinks she has to " ·ear
pumps because she has water on the knee.
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ST. JOHN'S ANALYST 13
Sophomores on Sophomores!
It is amazing how our Sophomor e class has
conclu ct ecl the Frosh-Soph activitie s. \ i\Tith a
!"rosh class that seemed to welcome the wear­mg
of reel caps and be wi ll ing to obey all Fresh­man.
rules, the_ Sophomores have accomplished
n?thmg . _Despite the fact that they have been
hit finan cially they are still a sleep. Mind you,
they are the future business men, the go-getters.
Is there no one among the Sophomores ·who
can carry on the work that was begun so suc­cessfully
last year? Regardless of the fact that
the Sophomore class was hounded all over New
York, a good time was had by all. Last year's
"Greenwich Village battle" is s till talked about.
I woncle·r if any Junior has fo r o-otten the little
open air affairs held at the old School of Com­n:
erce building. Mousta ches were clipped and
big boys were treated with ano-elic affection. All
this scientific work was conclu~tecl by a handful
of Sophomores. But they were Sophomores,
alert, awake, and willing to partake of the last
bit of fun that is left to a college man before he
enters his J unior and Senior years.
Some o·f the present Freshmen, who have
entered St. J ohn's College after four yea rs of
high school still carry that sophi sticated manner
of the high school senior. They smoke noncha­lantly.
They look upon any Freshman activity
as silly. They know everything ( ?) and any­thing.
ow clear Sophs, would it not be deli g htful and
pleasi ng to yotrr senses to see some of this fine
polish of sophi stication come str eaming off some
of these lofty fre shmen countenances? There is
still some time left to accomplish this thing. Let
the new office rs of the Sophomore class get busy.
Everything depends on the success of the Soph­Frosh
activities of this yea r. If the affair is a
13 .E A s e,,
failure there will be no stimulus fo r the Sopho­more
class of "'33".
Come! Come ! vVake up you Sophomores! !!
Some of you a re under the impression t hat the
Sophomor e-Freshman activities are childish
that it is. beneath your dignity to parti cipate i1~
them. You are wrong. The first two years of
college are not the years for se ri ous thinking.
They are the years in whi ch our last childi sh
pranks make their final spurts. Aft er that come
~he sane y~ars of college life. Therefore, get
mto the swmg of the Soph-Frosh activit ies and
make the remaining clays of this semester as un ­pieasant
fo r t he Freshmen as her etofore ....
Amen.
H EALTH B1 NT
To avoid hitting the thumb with a hammer
when driving a nail, hold the hammer with both
ha nd s.
If everybody would sing, it mig ht prevent
crime as Ruth St. Denis says; but not -if they
sang as the man upstairs does in his bath.
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14 ST. JOHN'S
Here and There With the Bench W armert,
( Continued from Page 5)
Dean Myer, in his college clays at Dartmouth,
could run the clas hes with the best of them.
Buck Freeman, the basketball mentor, looks
more like a student than a coach.
United States Attorney Howard G. Ameli and
a member of the faculty was a noted Princeton
athlete in the clays of our fathers.
St. John's ·basketball team of last year was
one of the best court teams in the East.
Our football team has scored more points up
to the present time than it die! all of last season.
Joseph De Fina . of our own School of Com­merce.
is captain of the tennis team; and he hel,J
that position for three years while at New
Utrecht High School, ,,·here teams are of a
championship cal ibre.
\Ve \\·elcome into our midsts the arrival of
the Hon. Mr. J. P. Cahill. But, \\·here, oh where,
is that famous bro,yn derby?
* * *
Clipped from one of our leading Brooklyn
papers. by Mr. Genga of the English Department.
"The East \\·ill see one of the greatest teams
that Knute Rockne has had this year." Three
cheers for the Irish.
* * *
The popular l\1r. Hogan in a recent lecture
compared Partnerships to Marriage; hard to get
out of ... \Ve offer this simile . . . Ioclern
marriage is just like a cafeteria. A man grabs
\\·hat looks nice to him, and pays for it later.
* * *
Heard at any bridge party:
1st She: "Does you r husband object to cats?"
2nd She: "I should say he does . He says I
feed all the ca ts in the neighborhood. \V on't you
stay to tea?"
* * *
\Ve wonder if l\lr. Blake has a certain member
of the Accounting Department in mind when he
remarks, ·"I strongly advocate a course in P ublic
Speaking."
* * *
Stucle: "\Vhat makes you think they're e n­gaged?"
'Nother Stewed : "She has a ring and he is
broke."
* * *
l\Ir. Cahill : "Take this case-"
Frosh : "\\-here to?"
* * *
\Ve warn all members of St. J ohn's to supply
themselves ,Yith a bathing suit (Jantzen) before
·they attempt to take a drink at one of our foun ­
·tains.
ANALYST
Pretty Nurse: "Every time I take the pa­t
ient's pulse, it gets faster. W hat shall I do?"
· Learned Doctor: "Blindfold him."
* * *
lr. Genga to M. Barrco : "Is thinking an ac­tion?"
Voice from friend two sea ts to left: "~ ot
with him."
* * *
For the benefit of the faculty, \\·e would like to
announce that the correct way of pronouncing
Le"·is l\Ieringolo's name is: Mer-like in
merry; ing-like in ring; o-like in no; and lo­like
hello.
* * *
James O'Neil, defeated candidate for the pr esi­dency
of A-2925, now spells candidate as such­caniclate-
and in sists it is correct.
* * *
The kind of Chri stmas Seals most \\·omen like
come from Hudson Bay.
* * *
Noticed in the Colony Theatre, 59th St. aucl
Broacl,Yay, on October 29, 1929, in the Pathe
Audio Review :
BABIES
Produced in Japan by special staff photo­grapher
of the Pathe Audio Review.
* * *
\\"hen you say H undt, make sure you ~n.ention
\\·hich one, or get a permit for the hunt111g sea­son.
In A-2925 there are three of them.
* * *
\Ve sincerely warn those members of our
school that have the good fortune of having
Prof . Lavine for Law, not to buy, when he offers
to sell his watch.
* * *
If we were to possess the money that Sam
Rubin \\"as supposed to have lost on the recent
stock crash, ,ve would buy out the stock room
and hand out free chalk to our profs.
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Among the Juniors
_-\s has been the custom in class 5920, a friendly
riYa lry in the matter of elections provided an
atmosphere fraught with excitement. The
interest shown by the students and the wealth
of material in the class add to the occas ion of the
selection of officers fo r the coming term.
For the presidency, Arthur Blumen opposed
Charles Edgette. The latter candidate was vic ­torious.
The vice-presiclental race presented
three canclida tes, viz., J oseph l\Ia rgolis, George
:\IcHugh and William Wasserman. Mr. Mar­o-
o lis won by a substantial margin. For secre­ta
ry, three members of the fair sex, the ~isses
Chernoff Dombeck and vVilcler were non11natecl.
:\Iiss Do~1beck was re-elected and continues as
Class Secretary for the second succes sive term.
To the credit of the class it must be stated that
no bitterness has ever been evidenced by any
student at the outcome of an election. The offi­cers
are always assured of the hearty co-opera­tion
of the entire class, which as the charter
class has ·been leaclin o- the way in a manner be­fittin'o
· a o-rou1) of students of St. John's College. b b
A 5929
This term's elections were probably the most
hotly contested in the School of Accounting.
Political parties expounding their candidates and
soliciting votes have taken the spare time of
many for the last month.
The results \\"ere exciting and conclusive in the
final balloting. H. Gill l\Ianifolcl was agam
chosen president. This is the second successive
term for the big lumber man; and if he can
stao-e another class dinner as successfully as the
lasf his election is well worth while, even if he
clich~'t get a summer session.
Harry Berkowitz was the people's choice for
Yice-pre siclent. Miss Lanning successfully put
aside all competition as sec retary. Mr. Edward
_-\llen was finally selected as treasurer.
A busy season is ahead of these successful
candidates if all the contemplated plans for a
year book, Junior Prom, and class dinner mater­ialize.
Let's all g ive the offi.cers all t he cooperat1on
and help poss i,bl e. This is t he best way of show­ing
our congratulations on. t heir success.
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be gratefully accepted by the "St. John's Anal­yst"
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Student Council Activities
The student council, com posed of the officers
of the yarious dasses, held the first meeting of
the season, Thursday, November 7, 1929. Both
the clay and night divis ion met after their respec­tive
classes. The principal business discussed
was the social activities for the coming season.
Following the prevailing custom of holding an
ann ual banquet, a lengthy discussion on that
subj ect took place. The arrangements, which
are as yet tentative, call for such an affair early
in January, to be held at one of the principal
hotels in the city.
A committee composed of ;,.Ir. Steinberg, Miss
\ i\Te intraub. and Mr. Berkman of the Night Divi­sion
\Yi ll \\·ork with a like committee of the Day
Division to make arrangements for this affair,
which at this early elat e, begins to assume the
appearances of a great success.
Bewildered Law V students \Yanclerecl through
the halls of the seventh flo or. A sense of un­r
eality and uncert ainty gripped them. A class
ended witho ut Harry l\Ieyers asking a question
Beattie.
16 ST . JOHN'S ANALYST
A SURVEY OF
STUDENT CONDITIONS
What Do You Get Out of Your Studies
By DAVID SCHERER
[Editor·s Note : This is the first of a series of articles
by the author.]
"vVhat am I getting out of my studies?" There
is onl y one r eply, "As much as you are putting in
to them." Studying is very much like the game
of "give and take". You g ive your self, your
undivided attention and your co ncentrated effo.rt,
and in r eturn you receive knowledge, satisfac­tion
and contentment.
In answer to the query, " \ iVhat subj ects did
you like best during your high school course?"
one hundred and fifty-thr ee out of two hundred
and forty-two students chose Engli sh, History
and Bookkeeping were clo se second-s. _The Ro­mance
lan o-ua o-es were amon~st the tail-enders. b b ~
From these statistics one can see very clearly
that it is not the subj ect , but the amount of study
that a student puts into the subject that determ­ines
the value.
Delvino- furth er into statistics, students who
studied c~nscientiously three to four hours daily,
gener ally received higher grades than those who
studied two hours daily . (In rare cases students
who study two hours daily derive as much bene­fit
as those who study a greater length of time.
In these cases, however, environmental condi­tions
and the psychological limit of the student
must be carefully considered.)
Conditions essenti al to proper studyin g a r e :
1. A willingness to study .
2. A quiet and well-ventilated r oom.
3. A straight-back chair.
\ iVith apologies to Ralph \!Valdo Emerson, we
conclude by say ing : "'.T'is th~ good r_ead ~,r that
maketh the good and 111terest111g subiect.
Lecture on Photo-Engraving
i\1r. Griffin , an expert in the fie ld of photo­engraving,
fav ored the students of the Eco­nomics
9901 class on Thursday, November 7,
with an intere sting talk upon the subj ect of
photo-engraving. The processes and details of
t his art were expla ined to the students, as oniy
one who has had long experi ence in the field
could visualize. It is hoped that Mr. Griffin will
again honor the class with his presence some
time in the near future.
During the recent Wall Street crash, American
Can went off quite a few points in value. No
doubt this ,Yas considered merely a drop in the
bucket.
Class Officers
The r esult s of the recent class elections 111
which officers wer e chosen fo r the present sem­est
er, are as fo llows:
Clas.s A-5929
President H. Gill l\lanifolcl
Formerly attended Flush ing High School
Vice-President._ _____________ Harry Berkowitz
Formerly a tte nded Seward Park High School
Secr etary ---------------- Eleanor F . Lanning
Formerly attended Girls' Commercial High School
Treasurer --- ------------------- Edward Allen
Class A-5920
President ----- - - ---------- --- Charles Edgett~
Formerly atte nd ed St. Agnes' High School
Vice-President __________ __ _ J oseph l\1argolies
Former ly attended James Madison High School
Secretary-Treasurer _______ __ Sarah Dombeck
F ormer ly attended Girls' Commercial High School
·Class A-4928
P resident -- ------------------ Abraham Holly
Formerly atte nded C. C. N. Y.
Vice-President ---------------- --- - Frank Ott
Formerly attended Alexa nder Hamilton High School
ecretary ---------------------- Elsie Arrig:1i
Formerly at te nded New Utrecht High School
Treasu rer ------- - --------- - Irvin g Grossman
Form erly atten ded Boys' High School
Class A-4919
Preside nt -------------------- Marvin Lyding
Formerly atte nded Alexander Hamilton High School
Vice-President __________ Emanuel l\fosko,\·1tz
Formerly a ttended Alexa nder Hamilton High School
Secretary-Tr easurer -------- - ----- Beryl Neal
Formerly attended Franklin K. Lane High School
Class A-3927
President --- - ------- ------- Karl F. Kirchofer
Formerly atten ded Richmond Hill High School
Vice-President - -------- --- E ugene Steinberg
For'rner ly attended New Utrecht High School
. Treasurer --- ---------------- Mary Dubinsky
Formerly attended Thomas J effe r son High School
Clas.s A-3918
President, ------------- -- - Salvatore Salomone
F ormerly attended E rasmus Hall High School
Vice-President - ---- -------------- Nat \ \Tilson
Formerly attended J ames Madison High School
Secr etary --- - ----- - -------- - Dona C. l\far ino
F ormer ly attended Erasmus Hall High School .
Treasurer ------------------ ? iclney Goldberg
Formerly atte nded Boys' High School
ST. JOHN'S ANALYST 17
Class A-2925
President ------- ---------- - \ :V illiam F . Hundt
Formerly attend ed Franklin K. Lane High School
Vice-President -------------- Vincent Bennett
Formerly attended Yonkers High School
Secreta ry ---------------------- Rubin J acobs
Formerly attended James Madison High School
Treasurer ------------------ Roland G. Nelson
Formerly atte nded New Utr ec ht High School
Class A-2917
President ----- ----------- J oseph Longobardi
Formerly attended LaSalle lVIilitary Academy
Vice-President --------- -- - Kenneth Spauldi!1g
Formerly attended St. John's H igh School
Treas urer - -------------------- Jack DeGrace
Formerly attended Rugby Preparatory School
.3ec retary ----------- ----- Henrietta Bearman
Formerly atte nded James Madison High School
Class A-1922
President ----------------- - - - -- Samuel Stein
Formerly atttended New Utrecht Hig h School
Vice-Presiclent ------------- - -- Samuel Gittier
Formerly atte nded New York Eveni ng High School
Treasurer ------------------- Sarah Gamberg
Formerly attended G:r ls' Commercial High School
Class A-1921
President - - -------------- Ralph \ A,1. Fairbanks
Formerly at te nded Manual Training High School
Vi ce-President _____ _______ Harold F. Stevens
Formerly attended Wal,ton School of Accounting
Treasurer ------------- - - -- Gussie Rosenberg
Formerly att ended Washington Irving High School
Class A-1915
President Martin Zamore
Formerly attended Thomas J effe rson High School
Vice-President __ _____________ Michael Micari
Formerly attended Southampton High School
Secretary ----- --------- --- --- R uth Bonengel
Formerly attended Newtown High School
Treasurer -------------------- Arthur Salmon
Formerly atte nded Polytechnic Preparatory School
Class A-1924
President ____________________ J erome Gelford
Vice-Presid ent ___________ _______ Henry Rudin
Secretary __ ______________ __ George H. Becht
Treasurer ----- -------------- Samuel Vincent
Class A-1923
President ---------------------- T. A. Rogers
Vice-President - ---- ----- --- -- - --- J. B. White
Treasurer - ----------------------- J. Bernard
Secretary --- - --------- - -- ------ Miss Feeney
If Columbus Decided to Discover America
in a Modern Way
One Act Play
Act I, Scene I
Columbus : "Li st en, fellows, this place is get­ting
too small to suit me. How about going out
and discovering another country so that we can
have plenty of place to run our parties and park
our cars. \Vhat do you say?"
Gang of College Boys: "It's oke with us Co­lumbo
old boy, lead us to it."
Col. : "Of course you realize that we have no
ships and money to set out on such an expedi­tion.
H owever, I have a drag with the Queen's
chambermaid, Nell , and I'll see w hat I can do.''
G. of C. B.: "Good old Columbo !"
Scene II
Nell's Chamber
Col. : and you see how I stand. vVe
must get the money and s hips, see what you
can do."
Nell: "Say li sten boy, you k now I can do any­thing
I set out to do. I'm the original kid. I
know my stuff. I'll see the Queen tonight, and
what I won't tell her won't be much."
Col.: "Atta girl."
Scene III
Queen's Boudoir
Queen I sabella: "Oh Lucy, I simply am pe r­plexed.
Here the Count Declo is corning to see
me and I don't knovv what to put on."
Nell: "Does the king know that your new
B. F. is coming to see you?"
Queen: "Sh, sh, not so loud. Of course not."
Nell ( sees a chance to get the Queen in a hole) :
"I feel it is my duty as an honorable su·bject of
Lhe king, to t ell him of your philanderings and
a s sure as a horse has four legs I'm gonna do it
tonight."
Queen: "You don't dare, you little hussy."
Nell: "Say, keep your negligee on. The King
is a pal of mine and should kno.w. However, fo r
a sli g ht consideration, I'll keep mum."
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If Columbus Decided to Discover America
Continued from Page 17)
Queen (giving Nell the money) : "Now r e­member,
Nell, say it ain't so, say it ain't so."
Scene IV
Aboard the good ship "Padoonko"
Col.: "\i\T ell , here we are, let's go. Have you
.all the girls aboard and the wine and booze?"
Bartender: "Yes, every thing, chief, eve ry­thing."
(They set sail. College boys sing and dance,
,others play bridge, some shoot craps, others are
necking heavily while some are trying to figure
o ut last year's income tax.)
Scene V
T,Yo clays later
Col. : "Land, land, land. Vv e have discovered
sornethi ng !"
Coll. Boys: "Aw, get back in your \\·igwam,
that's only a dead whale."
Col.: "Excuse me, it must have been a
111' 1rage. "
Scene VI
A clay later
(They discover an island and mid tumultuous
s hout of ''whoopee" and Hot Da,Yg," they land.)
Col.: "V\T e have been justly rewarded for our
efforts."
Coll. Boys : "Lay off the sob stuff and let's
get some chow mein and pork."
.. . And that, ladies and gentlemen, was how
Columbus and his crew discovered America, the
land ,Yhere nothing is free and the bootlegge rs
are brave.
(Editor's Note : For the benefit of those Irish
among us who read only He·brew the play has
lJeen ,nitten in English. Thank you! )
Those students that elect the study of Eng­g
li sh in the future, would be doing a wise thing
if they would get next to Mr. Genga, for he has
t he most peculiar and profitable habit of buying
c' econd-hand •books. Fifteen or twenty cents
being the maximum price.
During the summer Mr. Hewes asked a ques­tion
in the Economic History Class. One stud­ent
yelled out, " \ i\T ere you trying to find out if
we were paying attention?"
l\Ir. Hewes: "No, I'm not worried about that.
There is only one student, who, I 'm afraid, does
not pay attention. That student is Klein."
l\Ir. Klein at the time was sleeping comfort­ably
in the back of the room. The stud ents next
to him woke him up and asked him to answer the
question that was not directed to him.
l\Ir. Klein paused awhil e and said, "Mr. Hewys
will you kindly repeat the question ·because I
have fi,·e answers and I want to see which is the
correct one."
An Apologia
An erroneo us impression must be rectified.
The g irls of St. John's feel that there is antagon­ism
towards them, that they are being sub­merged
by a silent wave of animosity. You err,
clear ladies, err gravely. Logically, how could a
mere mortal man re sist the wistful eyes of
sylphlike creatures? If you doubt that they are
sylphlike, look about the classrooms and you will
be astounded. The otherwise drab classrooms,
although they represent the best in ultra modern
school architecture, become picturesque and
colorful with the varied hues. Instead of harsh
grating masculine voices the breezes or drafts
waft mellifluous tones to the ear. If you doubt
that li sten attentively as one of the sweet young
things r eplies or a sks questions ( of course very
few questions) and you will be amazed, to say
the least. All this irrefutable logic should con­found
our femini st s, who demand justice. As an
after thought, it is but just to acid that the dis ­ciples
of Jurgen are ever ready to di spense jus­tice
and stand with swords drawn to right any
wrong. Ruben Jaffe.
She : "You say you were arrested on the
night of your wedding, but the judge let you
off?"
H e: "Yes, he said he couldn't give me a worse
sentence !"-Life.
He: "How old are you?"
Tiny Tot: "Three years."
He: "I'll give you a dollar if you'll give me a
ki ss."
Tiny Tot: "Give me the dollar fir st."
He: "You're more than three years olcl."­College
Humor.
An expert says that it costs more to travel
than formerly. He might add that it costs more
to stay home.
Some fellows can take a drink of liquor and
let it alone, and then take another and let that
alone, and so on-all night.
One good feat ure about living in an apartment
house is that you always have ~omething to look
forwa rd to-the time when you can live som'e­where
else.
In the Law class of 2925, while di scussing
some cases the instructor said, "Here's one about
8. travelling salesman." One student who was
not paying attention shouted out , 'Tm ready
let's go!" Mr. Cahill read over the case and
cleciclecl to ~)ass it by .
S T. JOHN 'S ANALYST 19
We Recommend:
"The Little Show": This is positively the best
:nusical revue that has hit town in recent years.
After having seen it three t imes we still believe
that it is the best entertainm ent in town.
"George ·white's Scandals: The hit song of
this show is "Bigger and Better Than Ever", it
may be bigger but it is not better, in fact it is a
bit below the standard set by the other George
\Vhite revues.
"Sketch Book": Patsy Kelly makes this show
,\'11at it is.
"Great Day" : Its many postponements for im­provements
have not clone this one much good.
The music is its saving feature.
"Hot Chocolat es" : Not up to the standard set
by Blackbirds.
Also don't fail to see "Strictly Dishonorable",
"June Moon", "Rope's Encl", "The Subway l\T ur­cle
r", "Many \i\Tater s", "Criminal Code" .
Mrs. J ones : "I hear Mr s. Smith's baby fell
out of the window the other clay. \ i\Tas it hurt
much?"
Smart Aleck : "No, it was a bouncing baby ."
N o'r So CRAzY
A prominent and exceedingly prosperous ~e\\·
Yorker recently suffered a nervous breakdown.
H is condition was so seri ous-be did not even
recognize members of his family-acc ordingly
he was removed to an up- state sanitarium. His
\\·i fe visited him two or three t imes a week but
although his general condition improved '1e
failed to recognize her.
The other clay, however, he became conscious
of the presence of his good looking nurse and
calling her up to his bedsid e, he kissed her. Im­mediately
afterward, he begged her pardon for
doing so.
"That's all right," replied the nurse. "I'm
glad to know that you recognize me. \i\Then I
tell the doctor that you know me, and kissed me
it will be a feather in my cap."
"That k iss will be a feather in your cap?"
asked the patient.
"Yes, I'm sure of it," she replied.
"Come back here," he brightened up sud de nly.
"And I'll nmke an Indian Princess out of you."
UNDER 'rHE HEADIKG OF SCOTCH
Apropos of the safety campaign that is being
carried on at the present time a teacher in one
of the public schools asked her children if they
understood the traffic signals on our main
st r eet s.
One of the little boys explained the lights in
this way:
"The reel light means stop, the green lig ht,
go ."
"Ancl the yellow light?" a sk ed the teacher.
"That's to give Scotchmen the signal to sta rt
their motors."
FoR THE TRADE
\i\Thile at lunch one clay t\Yo pa rtners in the
cloak and suit business were bemoaning the cold
weat,her and it s effect on their business, when
one of them suddenly let out a yell.
"vVhat's the matter, Mac?" asked the other.
"Something terrible. I forgot to lock the safe
at the office," replied the other.
"Don't get excited, Mac," retorted the other.
"There's nothing in it and even if there was, ain't
I here with you?"
"Diel his broker carry him?"
"Yes, along with several pallbearers."
"vVhat became of your prisoner?"
"He stopped, sir, and as I had received no
command t9 halt, I kept right on walking, and
unfortunate ly my ,bayonet went right through
him."-College Humor.
20 ST. JOH N'S ANALYST
New York C. P. A. Act
Signed by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt,
on April 3, 1929, as Chapter 261 of the Laws of 1929
~
(REPRINTED BY REQUEST)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE EDUC TION 1497. Copartnerships.
LAW, IN RELATION TO THE PUBLIC 1498. Department supervision.
PRACTICE OF ACCOUNTANCY BY CER- 1498-a. The ame.
TIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNT ANTS. 1499. Effect of im-alid provisions.
The People of the State of New York, re pre- Sec. 1489. Definitions. As used in this article:
sented ·in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : ( 1) "department" means the education department
Section 1. Article fifty-seven of chapter twenty- of the State of New York, as conshtuted by the
one of the laws of nineteen hundred nine, entitled education law; (2) " regents" means the board of
"An act relating to education, constituting chapter regents o·f the uni versity of the state of New York;
sixteen of the consolidated laws," as amended by ( 3) "council" means the council on accountancy
chapter one hundred and forty of the laws of nine- which may be constituted by section fo urteen hun­teen
hundred ten as such article was added to chap- dred and ninety-one of this article; ( 4) "commit­ter
eighty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred tee" means the committee on grievances constituted
twenty-seven, is hereby repealed and a new article by section fourteen hundred and ninety-fiw· of thi~
fifty-seYen added in place thereof, to read as follows: article; ( 5) "board" means the board of certified
Aritcle 57 public accountant examiners
Certified Public Accountants constituted by section four-
Sec. 1489. Definitions. IMPORT ANT CHANGES IN teen hundred and ninety of
1490. Board of certified NEW LAW this article; ( 6) the public
public accountant 1. Increases the Board of Ex- practice of accountancy within
examiners. aminers from three to five members. the meaning of t his article is
1490-a. Qualifications and 2. A Council of Accountancy is defined as follows: A person
expenses. created to consist of eminent certi- engages in the public practice
1490-b. Organization and fi ecl public accountants and to advise of accountancy who, holding
meetings o f the with the Regents and the Board on himself out to the public. as
board. Accountancy matters. an accountant, in consiclera-
1490-c. Receipts and dis- 3. A Grievance Committee is es- tion of compensa:tion received,
bursements. tablished to hear charges of fraud. or to be received by him
1490-cl. Records . deceit or gross negligence against offers to perform or does per-
1491. Council on account- certified public accountants and to form, for other persons, serv-ancy.
make recommendations to the Re- ices which involve the audit-
1492. Certified pub 1 i c gents on revocation and reissue of ing or verification of financial
accountants. certificates. transactions, books, accounts
1492-a. Inclorsements of 4. The Education R equirement or records, or the preparation.
certificates of other is changed in that after a date spec- Yerification or ce1,tification of
states. ified a candidate for C. P. A. ex- financial accounting and re-
1493. Penalties and their aminations must present evidence of lated statements intended for
collection. satisfactory completion of an ap- pu'blication or for the purpose
1494. Revocation or sus- proved course in Accountancy in of obtaining credit, ·or who.
p('.!nsion. a college rl'cogni::::ed by the Board holding himself out to the
1494-a. The same. of Regents. public as an a·ccountant, ren-
1494-b. Revocation of in- clers professional services or
clorsements. assistance in or about any 01
Sec. 1495 . Committee on grievances. ?ll matters of principle or detail relating to account-
1495-a. Jurisdiction of committee. ing procedure or the recording, presentation or cer-
1495-b. Proceedings before committee. tification of financial facts or data.
1495-c. Subpoena , oaths, evidence. .Sec. 1490. Board of certified public accountant
1495 -d. Order of certiorari. examiners. There is hereby created a board of
1495-e. Disqualifica:tions. ctrtifiecl public accountant examiners consisting of
1495-f. Removal from office. at least five members, who shall be appointed by
1495-g. Rules and regulation . the regents within sixty clays after this article be-
1495-h. Certificates of dismissal of charges. comes effective. T he members of the board first
1495-i. Suspensions in certain cases. appointed hereunder shaH be appointed to serve for
1496. Reissue of certificates. the following terms respectively: One member for
1496-a. The same. one year; one member for two yea.rs; one member
1496-b. The same. for t'hree years; one member for four years; and
ST. JOHN 'S ANALYST 21
1.me member for five years. On the expiration of
each of said terms, the term of office of each newly
appointed or reappointed member of the board shall
be for a period of five year s. In addition the re­gents
may at any time appoint such number of
additional members of the board, for terms to be
fixed by the -regents, but not exceeding five years
each, as the regents may deem reasonably neces­sary
for the efficient and expeditious performance
of the duties of the board. The .total number of
members of the hoard shall be an odd number. T he
regents may remove any member of the bo,trcl from
office who shall have been found guilty, after clue
notice and a hearing, of misconduct, incompetency,
or neglect of duty in office. Vacancies in the mem­bership
of the board, however created, shall be filled
by appointment by the regents for the unexpired
term , but no vacancy shall be deemed necessarily to
exist so long as there shall be five members of the
board in office.
Sec. 1490-a. Qualifications and expenses. Each
member of the board shall be a citizen of the United
States and a resident of t he state at the time of
his appointment. He s·hall have been engaged in
the public practice of accountancy for at least five
years, and shall have been a certified public account­;
rnt for at least two years. Each member of the
board shall receive reasonable compensation, to be
fixed by the regents, fo r attending sess ions of the
board and for the time spent in examining appli­cants
for the certificate of certified public account­,,
nt under this article, and in necessary travel, and
in addition shall be reimbursed for all necessary
traYel and other actual expenses incurred in carry­ing
out any of the provisions of t his article. Each
member of the board shall receive a certificate of
appointment from the regents and before entering
upon his term of office shall file with the secretary
of state the constitutional oath of office. The re­gents
shall have power to employ a clerk and such
deputy clerks as may be reasonably necessary to
assist the board in the keeping of its records and
in the performance of its duties. The salaries of
the said clerk and deputy clerks respectively shall
bf' fixed by the regents. The board shall have power,
subj ect to approval by the regents, to make such
rules, not, inconsistent with law, as may be reason­ably
necessary in the performance of its duties .
Sec. 1490-b. Organization and meetings of the
board. The board shall hold a meeting within thirty
clays after its members are fir t appointed, and
thereafter shall in the month of May in each year
hold a regular annual meeting, at which it shall elect
from its members a chairman, a vice-chairm an and
a secretary. Other regular me tings shall be held
at such times as the rules of the board may provide,
and such special meetings shall be held as may be
necessary or advisable in the judgment of the board,
or a majority thereof, or upon the call of the de­partment.
Notice of all meetings shall be given in
such manner as may be provided in said rules. A
quorum of the board shall consist of a majority of
its members. ·
Sec. 1490-c. Receipts and disbur sements. All
moneys deriyec) from and through the operation of
this article shall be paid over to the department,
which shall pay therefrom all expenses incurred in
carrying out the provisions of this article and annu­ally
shiall pay into the treasury of the state any por­tion
of the moneys so received which may remain
after the payment of said expenses.
Sec. 1490-d. .Records. T he board shall keep a
written record of its proceedings. The department
shall keep a register of all applicarnts approved for
the certificate of certified public accountant by the
board, showing with respect to each applicant his
name, age, educa:tion, and other qualificart:ions, place
of business and place of res,iclence, whether or not
an examination was required, and whether the ap­plication
was refused or a cer tificate of certified
publi,c accountan,t i,ssued to .the applicant, and the
date of such action. The department shall also
keep a register of all copartnerships to which certi­ficates
of registration shall 'be issued pursuant
to section fourteen hundred and ninety-seven of
this articl e. In any civi'l or criminal action, pros­ecution,
trial, hearing or proceeding arising out
of or fo unded upon any provision of this article,
the books and registers of t he department, or a
certificate as to the contents thereof 'bearing the
seal of the department and signed by the com­missioner
or an assistant commissioner of educa­tion,
shall be prima fac ie evidence of all matters
stated therein.
Sec. 1491. Council on accountancy. The re­gents
may at any time appoint a council on ac­countancy
to advise with the department, the
board, and any other public officers concerning
any and all matters within the purview of this
artide and the enforcement thereof The per­sons
so appointed shall be certified public ac­countants
eminent in the profession of account­ancy.
They shall serve without compensation.
They shall hold office for three years or until the
appointment and qualification of their successors
respectively. The regents may fill any vacancies
in the counci'l by appoinment for the unexpired
term. The council shall elect one member there­of
as chairman and another member thereof as
secretary. Meetings of the council may 'be held
at any time and place appointed 'by the commis­sioner
or an assistant commissioner of ecluca­ti-
on, or upon the call of any three members of
the council or at the request of a majority of the
board. A majority of the council shall constitute
a quorum.
Sec. 1492. Certified pub'lic accountants. The
certificate of certified public accountant shall be
issued, upon application to the department and
the payment of a fee to be fixed by the depart­ment,
which fee is to accompany the application,
to any citizen of the United States, or to any per­son
who has declared his intention of becoming
such citizen, who resides within the state or has
a place of business the rein, ,"110 is twenty-one
22 ST. JOHN'S ANALYST
years of age or over and of good moral character,
who submits evidence satisfactory to the depart­ment
of the possession of academic and profes­sional
qualifications for the public practice of
accountancy and who passes the examinati on
required by the department; provided, that the
certificate of certified public accountant issued to
any person who has declared his intention of be­coming
a citizen of the United States shall be­come
void at the expiration of eight years from
the elate of the declaration of the intention of
such applicant to become a citizen, unless prior
to the expiration of said eight years evidence is
furni shed to the department that the applicant
has become a citizen of the United States.
Sec. 1492-a. Indorsements of ce rtificates ,)f
other state s. The department may, in its discre­tion,
upon recommendation of the board and the
submission of evidence of professional qualifica­tions
as hereinafter in this section provided, and
without examination, but otherwise subj ect to
the academic and professional qualifications men­tioned
in section fourteen hundred and ninety­two
of this article, and the rules of the regents
promulgated thereunder, including the payment
of a fee to be fixed by the department, indorse
a certificate of cert ified public accountant issued
by the proper authorities of any other state or
political subdivision of the United States, to any
citizen or person who has declared his intention
of becoming a citizen thereof, provided that the
applicant for such inclorsement, since receiving
such certificate, has been engaged in the public
practice of accountancy for three years or more
in one or more of the states or political subdivi­sions
of the United States either on his own ac­count
or as a member of a copartnership or as
an employee of any person engaged in the public
practice of accountancy, and such applicant is
actually so engaged at the time of applicatic, 11
for inclorsement, and is in good and regular
standing as a certified public accountant in each
state or political subdivision of the United States
from which he has received a certificate of certi­fied
public accountant. Such inclorsement shall
be equivalent to a certificate of certified public
or.countant of the state except as otherwise pro­vided
in this article. Such indorsement shall be­come
void in the case of any person not a citiun
of the United States at the expiration of eight
years from the date of his declaration of inten­tion
to become a citizen.
Sec. 1493. Penalties and their collection. ( 1)
Any person who shall
(a) Sell or fraudulently obtain or furnish any
certificate or indorsement of any certificate of
certified public accountant, or aid or abet there­in;
or
(b) Engage in the public practice of account­ancy
as a certified public accountant by virtue
of any certificate or inclorsement of any certifi-cate
of certified public accountant illegally or
frauclttlently obtained by such person, or iss ued
unlawfully, or tby reason of any fraudulent repre­sentation
or mistake of fact in a material regard,
induced by such person; or
(c) Hold himself out as authorized to engage
i,1 the public practice of accountancy as a certified
public accountant under a false or assumed name; or
(2) · Any person, who, not being a certified
public accountant of the state, shall
(a) Hold himself out to be engaged in the public
practice of accountancy within the state as a certi­fied
pubic accountant; or
(b) Use in connection with his name any title or
designation tending to imply that he is engaged in the
public practice of accountancy as a certified public
accountant within the state ; or
( c) Use the title "certified public accountant"
or any abbreviation thereof or the letters "C. P. A.,"
in connection with his name, or with any trade name
or in the conduct within the state of any occupation
or profession involving or pertaining to the public
practice of accuntancy; or
(3) Any person, who, during the time his ce1:­tifica,
te or the inclorsement of his certificate as a certi­fied
public accountant shall be void, revoked or sus­pended
pursuant to thjs article, shall engage within
the state in the public practice of accountancy as a
certified public accountant, shall be guilty of a mis­demeanor.
Any such misdemeanor shall be punish­able
by imprisonment for not mot'e than one year.
or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars,
ur both such fine and imprisonment for each separate
offense.
( 4) All courts of special sessions within their
respective territorial jurisdictions are hereby em­powered
to try, hear and determine such misdemean­ors
without indictment, and ro impose the penalties
herein prescribed. ·
( S) Such misdemeanors shall be prosecuted by
the district attorney of the county wherein the same
are committed, or, if committed in two or more
counties, then by the district attorney of any one of
such counties, and at any time the attorney-general
may supersede any district attorney in the prosecu­tion
of any s·uch misdemeanor in any county.
(6) In addition to the criminal liability, impris­onment
and fine above provided, a civil penalty 1s
hereby prescribed and imposed, which shall be one
hundred dollars for each such ,offense hereinbefore
defined to be recovered by the attorney-general in an
action against the person or persons, including co r­porations,
who have committed any such offense or
offenses, which action shall be maintained in the
name of the people of the state. Such civil penalty
shall be cumulative, and when any such offense or
offenses, sha.Jl be committed in whole or in part upon
more than one day, such civil penalty shall be recoY­erable
for each such clay.
(7) The attorney-general, with the consent of
the commissioner of education, may compromise
claims for such penalties, and accept less than the
mnount claimed, or clue, before or after an action has
ST. JOHN'S ANALYST 23
Leen begun. No compromise may be made or ver­dict
rendered, except pursuant to section thirty-four
of the srtate finance law.
(8) Notwithstanding the prnvisions of any other
general, local or special law, all penalties, fees and
other moneys derived from the operation of the pro­,
·isions of this a11ticle sha.Jl be paid to the department,
and shall be available to the department together
with the appropriations made from time to time by
che legislature, for the payment of all salaries and
other p roper expenses incurred in the adrninis,tration
and enforcement of the provisions of this article, in­cluding
a sufficient amount to pay the salaries or
other compensation of such deputies, special deputies
or assistants as the attorney-general shall assign for
the enforcement of this ar.tide. On the thirtieth day
of June, beginning in rthe first year after this act takes
effect and each year thereafter, the department shall
pay any balance of such sums remaining in their
hand in>t:o the state treasury.
(9) The di splay or uttering within the state of a
card. sign, a·clvertisement or other printed, engraved
or written in sitrument or device bearing a person's
name in con junction with the words "certified public
accountant" or any ab'breviation tJhereof, or the letters
''C. P. A." shall be pi:ima facie evidence in any
prosecution, proceeding or hearing that the person
whose name is so displayed caused or procured the
display or uttering of such card, sign, advertisement
or other printed, engraved or wriit:ten instrument or
device an'd that such person is holding himself out
to be a certified public accountanrt. In any prose­cution
or proceeding under this article, evidence of
the commission of a s~.ngle act prohibited by th~s
article shall be sufficient to justify a conviction or the
recovery of any civil penalty as the case may .be
without evidence of a general course of conduct.
Sec. 1494. Revocation or suspension. The re­gents
shall revoke or shall suspend for a term to be
fixed by them, the certificate or the indorsement of
the certificate of any certified public accountant who
has been conviotecl of a felony under the laws of the
state or of the United States, or of any misdemeanor
as defined in this article, or of any atrocious crime
in any jurisdiction.
Sec. 1494-a. The same. The regents shall also
have power, upon the recommendation of the board,
and after clue notice and an oportunity to be heard,
tc revoke or suspend the certificate or the indorse­rnent
of the certificate of any certified public ac­countant
who is found guilty by the board or a
majority thereof, after clue notice and a hearing, of
any fraud or deceit in obtaining, either for himsflf
or for any any other person, either a certificate or an
inclorsement of a certificate of certified public ac­countant
issued pursuant to this article.
Sec. 1494-ib. Revocation of inclorsements. The
regents shall also have power, upon the recommenda­tion
o.f the board, and after due notice and an oppor­tunity
to be heard, to revoke or suspend the indorse­rnent
of the certificate of certified public accountant
issued to any person pursuant to section fourteen
hundred and ninety-two-a of this article upon
evidence that the duly constituted authorities of any
state or political subdivision of the U ni<ted States
have lawfully revoked or suspended the certificate of
certified public accountant issued to such person by
such state or political subdivision.
· Sec. 1495. Committee on grievances. Within
sixty clays after this act shall take effect the regents
:;hall appoint a committee on grievances which shall
consist of ten member s, each of whom shall be a
certified public accountant in good standing for at
least ten years prior to his appointment. The term
of office of each of said members shall be five years
except that upon the taking effect of this act two
members shaU be appointed for a term of one year;
two members for a term of two years; two members
for a term of three years; two members for a term
of four years, and two members for a term of five
years; and as such terms respectively expire the
vc:cancies in the membership of the committee shall
bE: filled by the appointment by the regents of two
members whose terms shall be five years from the
expiration of the terms of their predecessor s. Any
vacancy caused by resignation, death or otherwise
shall be filled by the appointment by the regents of a
new member to serve for the unexpired term. The
members of the committee shall serve without com­rensation.
They shall at their meeting, and there­after
annually, within ten day,s after the first clay of
January of each year, elect from their own number a
chairman and a secretary. Seven members of the
committee sha!ll constitute a quorum.
Sec. 1495-a. Jurisdiction of committee. The
members of the committee shall have jurisdiction to
bear charges against certified public accountants for
any fraud, deceit, or gross negligence in the public
practice of accountancy, and the regents may, upon
the receipt from the committee of the record, find­ings
and determination of the committee wherein and
whereby any certified public accountant shall have
been found guilty of any such fraud, deceit or gross
negligence, and after clue notice and an opportunity
lo be heard, revoke and annul his certificate or the
indorsement of his certificate as a certified public
accountant, ·or suspend him from practice as a ce1ii­fied
public accountant, or reprimand him.
Sec. 1495-b. Proceedings before committee. Pro­ceedings
against any certified pubic accountant for
,:my fraud, deceit or gross negligence in the pub1ic
practice of accountancy shall be commenced by filing
a written charge with the department, and if it shall
appear to the department, after affording an oppor­tunity
to the complainant and respondent respectively
to be heard, that there is probable cause to believe
that the respondent has committed any fraud, deceit
or gross negligence in the public practice of account­ancy,
the charge shaU be referred to the chairman of
the committee, who shall designate seven impartial
members of the committee to hear the same, and he
shall also fix a time and place for the hearing, and a
copy of the said charge, together with a notice of the
time and place fixed for the hearing, shall be served
upon the respondent at least ten clays before the date
so fixed. At any such hearing the respondent may
24 ST. JOHN 'S ANA LYST
,1ppear both in person and by co unsel, make answer
to the charge, produce witnesses and ev idence on his
own behalf, cross-examine witnesses, and examine
such evidence as may be produced again st him. A
stenographic record of the hearing shall be kept.
T he members of the committee before whom the
bearing shall be held shall make a written report of
their joint or several findings and recommendations,
and the same shall be forthwith transmitted to the
secretary of the committee with the stenographer's
minutes and the evidence or a transcript thereof. If
by a vote of the com,mittee before whom the hearing
was held the r espondent is found guilty of the charge
against him, the committee shall transmit to the de­partment
the record, findings, recommendations and
determination of the committee, and the regents,
after giving the respondent clue notice and an oppor­tunity
to be heard, shall in their discretion execute
an order affirming, modifying or reversing suoh
determination of the committee. Nothing herein
contained shall !be deemed to prevent the depart­ment
from init:iiating or prosecuting any charges or
proceeclinggs in any case against any certified public
,,ccountant.
Sec. 1495-c. Subpoenas, oaths, evidence. The
board or any member thereof or the committee
or any member thereof may iss ue subpoenas to
compel the attendance of witnesses, and may
administer oaths, take testimony, hear proofs
and r eceive exhibits in evidence in connection
with or upon any hearing under this article or in
a9-y matter relating to the official duties of the
board or he committee or which the board or tbe
committee may lawfu1lly inves tigate. It s hall be
the duty of the board or the committee respec­tively
to issue subpoenas at the request of any
certified putblic acco'..mtant against whom charges
are to be heard by the 1board or t he committee.
The board or the committee shall not 1Je bound
by techni,cal rules of evidence, but any determi­nation
shall be fo unded upon suffic ient legal evi­dence
to sustain the same. The department sha ll
in its discretion furni sh such records, advice and
assistance to the board or the committee as may
be requested by the board or the committee or
may be deemed necessary by the depa rtm ~nt.
Sec. 1495-d. Order of certiorari. Any certi­fied
puib'!ic accountant whose certificate or in­dorsement
is revoked or who is suspended or
reprimanded under any of the provisions of this
a rticle, may have an order of certiorari to review
such determination.
Sec. 1495-e. Disqualifications. No member of
the committee shall participate in any way in
the hearing or determination of any charges in
which he may be either a complainant or a wit­ness
or a respondent or an implicated person, or
in any case wherein any of the partie s, either
complainant or respond·ent or implicated, a re
related to him by •consanguiniy or affi nity within
the sixth degree. If for any reason t hree or more
members of the committee shall ·be disqualified
or othen1·ise una1ble to participate in the determi­nation
af any case, their p'laces shall be tem­po
rari ly filled fo r t he purposes of such case by
the app intment by the regents of t emporary
members of the committee, having the qualifica­tions
req uired by section fou rteen hundred and
ninety-five of this article, in place of the mem­bers
di squalified or otherwise una'ble to partici­pate.
Sec. 1495-f. Removal from office. The regents
.may remove a ny member of the committee from
office who s hall have been found guilty, aft er
notice and a hearing, of malfeasance in office or
of negJJect of duty .
Sec. 1495-g. Rules and regula tions. The com­mittee
shall have power to make such rules and
regulations, not inconsistent with law or the
rules of the regents, for the conduct of its duties
and proceedings as it shall deem r easona'bly nec­essary.
Sec. 1495-h. Certificates of dismissal of charges.
\i\Then a proceeding under this article has been
dismissed the department shall issue a certificate
to such effect.
Sec. 1495-i. Suspensions in certain cases.
·whenever, after the exercise of due diligence the
boar d or the committee shall be una'ble to effect
personal service of any notice of hearing under
this article upon any certified public accountant,
the regents shall have power to suspend the cer­t
ificate or indorsement of the certificate of any
such certified public accountant, if he shall fail
to appear before the board or the committee
within one week after notice to him by the de­partment
requiring such appearance by hii11 shall
have been published once in each week for three
successive weeks in a newspaper of general cir­culation
in the county wherein he was last known
to have r esided or to have engaged in the public
practice of accountancy and shall have been
mailed to him at his last known post-office ad­dress.
Sec. 1496. Reissue of certificates. The r e­gents
may in their discretion reissue a certificate
or indorsement of a certificate as a certified
public accountant to any person whose certificate
or indorsement shall have been revoked pursuant
to section fo urteen hundred and ninety-four of
this article after pardon of such person by the
president of the Unied States, or by the gover­nor
or other pardoning authority in the jurisdic­tion
wherein the conviction was had.
Sec. 1496-a. ·The same. The regents may a1l
so,
upon recommendation of the board, r eissue a
certificat e or indorsement as a certified ptl'blic
accountant to any pe rson whose certificate ot
indorsement shall have become void pursuant to
sections fo urteen hundred and ninety-two or
fo urteen hundred and ninety-two-a of this article,
provided such person shall have become a citizen
of the United States.
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Sec. 1496-b. The same. The regents may also,
upon recommenda tion of the board, reissue a
certificate or inclorsement as a certified public
accountant to any person whose certificate or
indor sement shall have been revoked pursuant
to sections fo urteen hundred and ninety-four-a
or fo urteen hundred and ninety-fo ur-b of t his
article, or upon recommendation of the commit­t
ee, may rei ssue a certificat e or indorsement as
a certifi ed public accountant to any person whose
certificate or indorsement s hal'i have been r e­voked
pursuant to section fourteen hundred and
ninety-five-a hereof.
Sec. 1497. Copartnerships. Nothing con-tained
in this article shall be deemed to prohibit
the use of the words "certified public account­ants"
in connection with the copartnership name
of any copartnership engaged in the state in the
public practice of accountancy provided that
such copartnership shall o'btain from the depart­ment,
upon the recommendation of the board,
and upon the payment of a fee to be fixed by the
department, a certificate thaf such copartnership
has been registered by the department pursuant
to this section . No such certificate shall be is­sued
to any copartnership which has failed to
comply with any provision of the partnership
law app'licable thereto, or with any provision of
this section. Application for registration of any
copartnership pursuant to this section must be
mad'e to the board upon the verified affidavit of
a general partner of such copartnership who is ':l
certified public accountant of the state in good
standing. Such affidavit must set forth t he co­partnership
name and the post-office address
thereof within the state, and the address of t!1e
principal office thereof, wherever located, to­gether
with the name, residence and post-offi·ce
address of each general or limited partner of
such copartnership; and it must be made to ap­pear
to the satisfaction of the board that each
partner resident or engaged within the United
States in the public practice of accountancy is in
good standing as a certifi ed public accountant of
one or more of the states or political subdivisions
of the United States, and that each partner resi ­dent
or engaged within the state in the public
practice of accountancy is a certified pub1lic ac ­countant
of the state in good standing, and that
no stat e or political subdivision of the United
States has revoked the certificate of ce rtifi er]
public accountant of any partner of such copart­ner
ship fo r his misconduct. The regents shall
have power in their discretion, or upon the rec­ommendation
of the board, after notice and a
hearing, to revoke the registration of any c0-
partship pursuant to this section obtained by
either misrepresentation or suppr ession of any
ma t erial fact , or in case t he certificate or in­dorsement
of any partner thereof shall be r e­vok
ed as provided in this article, or in case any
other state or political subdivision of the United
State s sha'll for his misconduct revoke the certi­ficate
of certified public accountant issued to any
partner by such state or political subdivision, or
in case at any time such copartnership shall not
have a partner who is a certified public account­ant
of the state in good standing and a resident
of or regul a rly engaged within t he state in the
public practice of accountancy, or in case any
partner of such copar tner ship who is not a cer ti ­fied
public accountant of the state shall reside
or engage within the state in the public practice
of accountancy, or in case any person sha1l be­come
a partner in such copartnership without
notice thereof being g iven in writing to the de­partment
not later than one month thereaft er.
vVheneve·r the registration of any copartnership
pursuant to this section shall have been revoked,
the proof of such registration shall not be ad­missi,
ble in evidence in any civil or criminal ac­t
ion, prosecution, trial, hearing or proceeding
aris ing out of or founded upon any provision of
this article with respect t o any matter or thing
occurring subsequent to the elate of such r evoca­tion.
Sec. 1498. Department supervision. The pro­visions
of this article shall be administered sub­ject
to sections forty-five and fifty-one of this
chapter.
Sec. 1498-a. The same. Subsequent to J anu­ary
first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight,
every candidate fo r examina tion fo r a certificate
as a certified pub'lic accountant shall present evi­dence
that he has satisfactorily completed the
course of study in a college or school of a:ccount­ancy
registered by the department as maintain­ing
a satisfactory standard , and that prior to the
beginning of his course of study in such college
or school of account ancy he satisfactorily com­pleted
a four year high school course approved
for this purpose or the equivalent as determined
by the commissioner of education.
Sec. 1499. Effect of invalid provisions. If the
courts of the state or of t he United States sha'll
adjudge any section or sections, provision or pro­visions
of his arti cle unconstitutional or void,
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Annual Banquet
All students should save J anuary 11 for the third
annual banquet and dance of the School of Ac­counting,
Commerce and Finance. T his affair has
become an in stitution in the School of Commerce
and the advanced students will remember, with
pleasure, the last two yearly event .
At the fir st one the school was fo rtunate in hear­ing
the Honorable George V. McLaughlin deliver
an address on "Accountancy as a Profession." Mr.
McLaughlin has since been made a member of the
Board of Trustees of St. J ohn's College. At the
fi rst banquet the students also listened to the Hon­orable
J ohn H. McCooey, Democratic leader of the
Borough of Brooklyn, who gave his experiences in
accounting and bookkeeping in his early clays.
At last year's banquet, the diners were favored
with an excellent address on the uses that a man
makes of professional eel ucation. delivered by Dr.
Philip A. Brennan, chairman of the Board of
T rustees of St. J ob n's College. ery Reverend
J ohn J. Cloonan, P resident of the College, also gave
an inspiring talk on the ideals for which the college
stands. The students will also remember the stories
and other witticisms by H. W. Evans, who has
promised to be with us this year if hi s engagements
can be arranged accordingly.
For this year's banquet the committee will have
a speaker of national prominence together with
humorists and other entertainment which promi ses
to surpass either of the two preceding affairs. T his,
together with a sumptuous dinner and dancing by
one of New York's favorite orchestras, should be
an incentive for having a record turnout. T he
ANALYST suggests that students subscribe for tickets
early. The capacity of this year's 1 allroorn will be
limited. The class committeemen wilJ have the in­formation
and detail within a week.
Where Students in the School of
Commerce Come From
n anal ysis of the 1,000 students who attend St.
J ohn's College School· of Accounting, Commerce
and Finance disclosed the in formation that 147 di f­ferent
high and preparatory schools have prepared
men and women for entrance to the school.
The students have come from various parts of
the United States, Canada, Ireland, Austria and
China. Long di stance honors belong to the Laurie
High School, Pekin, China, and other distant schools
are the Christian Brothers High chool · in both
Limerick and Cork, Ireland . and Hamilton High
School, Ontario, Canada.
The school who has suppli ed a large number ·o{
students is New Utrecht High School of Brooklyn
with 107 students. Close on the heels of New
Utrecht is Thomas J efferson High School with 91.
and following Thomas J efferson was found Alex­ander
Hamilton High School with 71. T he oth er
Brooklyn high schools are well represented as are
New York City high chools such as Stuyvesant,
ANALYST
24; Seward Park High School, 2-+ ; De\ i\/ itt Clinton,
22; H igh School of Commerce, 16; and Morris
J-:Iigh School, 10.
The analysis further cli ·cl o eel that almost every
high school in northern New J ersey lower Connect­icut
and Long I sland has one or more stud ents in
the school. Other states represented are Virgini a,
Hbocle t slancl , Mas achusetts. vVi -consin, Pennsyl­Yania.
J\ilarylancl . Ohi o and Washingt on.
J t is interesting to note that Brooklyn and New
York are becoming strategical centers for higher
business education because of the proximity of Wall
.Street and the large manufacturing, banking and
distributing organizations.
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then such determination shall affect only the sec ­t
ion or sections, or p r ovision or provisions so ad­judged
to be unconstituti onal or void , and sha ll
not affect any other section or provision of this
article.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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Courses leading to degrees Bachelor of Business Adminis­tration
and Bachelor of Science (Recognized by Board of
Reger~ts) ; Accountancy (C.P.A.). Also courses preparing
for high school and college teachina of commerce and
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or . commercial high school cliplom~. Spring session begins
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J. OHNS NALYST
November 1929
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Publi s hed by the Faculty and Students of St. John's College School of Accounting, Commerce and Finance
and by Contri bu t ing Speciali sts.
Vol. III. November, 1929 No. 1
Editors
Day Divisio11
VINCENT R. PINTO
Night Dii•ision
DAVID ScI-IERER
School N ews
CI-IARCES J. E DGETTA
Art
BEN.I AM IN BABl3Y
I-I w11or
J\'1ARVIN LYDING
B usiness
ARTHUR BLUMEN
Sports
CHARLES ROTHMAN
Reportorial Staff
Secretarial
MARION vv 1LoER
BERYL NEAL
ALLAN B EATTIE
DONA MARINO
HARRY 'vVILLIA:WS
LAWRENCE LEVY
HARRY E ICHORN
I SIDORE U'r c ovrrz
LEWIS MERINGOLO
MAX MELTZER
BENJAMIN H UROWITZ
J OSEPH LONGOBARDI
SARAH D OMBECK
SIDNEY GOLDBERG
HARRY SILBER
J OHN RONAN
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Contents
Sports
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4 ST . JOHN'S ANALYST
St. John's See Little Chance of
Fordham Game?
The basketball g-amc betweell St.
John's College anl. Fordham Univer­sity,
which annually develops into one
of the major court classics of the East.
will not materialize this year un less
athletic authorities of the two insititu­tions
can come to an agreement before
long. Last year the college court
championship of the East hinged upon
the outcome of the game which tile
then undefeated Fordham team won bv
a margin of three points on its ow~1
court.
Disagreement concerning the scene of the
game is the main ca use of the trouble. For many
seasons St. John's has journeyed to the Ford.ham
gym only to taste defeat on each occasion,
though sometimes by a sl im margin indeed. Sup­porte
rs of the Brooklyn team contend that such
would not be the case if a home-and-home series
was arranged or if the game was played on a
neutral court.
Fordham has steadfastly refused to leave its
own bailiwick and recently turned clown the re­quest
of Ray Lynch, athletic director of St.
J ohn's. to have the game played on some other
court this season. Both Fordham and St. John's
make use of aibnormally sized court for their
home games, the St. J ohn's fl oor being decidedly
on the small side, while the court on which the
annual game has been played for several season
at Fordham, is numbered among the largest rn
the country and presents a problem to players
not used to it.
Failure to agree on the distrib ution of the
"gate" is another contributing cause to the rup-
1.,ire. Last year the game attracted a crowd
e;st imated in exce of 8,000 people to the F rel ­ham
game and St.John' wa rewarded with one
t!iirtieth of the receipt ·. The Fordham authori­ties
refu eel to better the figure for this year's
uame.
Football
Our football team has alre2.dy
engaged in seven contests. :oach
Ray Lynch has put a ham-run­ning,
offensively aggre~sive team
on the field this season. The
team has imnrovecl with each
succeeding ga1;1e. There is a pos-sibility
of the Red and White
emerging victorious in its remaining games
with Providence, St. T homas, and De Paul.
The last two games are to be played at our
new home field, Dexter Park.
In their first game, the Reclmen held the
po,yerful Holy Cross combinatioi1 scoreless for
the first half before bowing, 19-0, when the Holy
Cross backs, driven almost to desperation by the
unexpected resi stance, threw several long passes
that found their marks. The power of the Hol_v
Cross team may be visualized when it is recalled
that the u111beaten Fordham team only defeated
the Worcester lads, 7-0.
St. Johns looked really fo rmidable in defeat­ing
Drexel in P hiladelphia by a score of 14 to 7.
A complete change of attack crossed the Slow­towners,
w,ho had scouted the Holy Cross garn(',
and so Coach Lynch proved that scouting is not
always of any advantage to a team. It might be
well to note right here that since this game,
Drexel has defeated the City College eleven b
the score of 6-4. A word to the wise is suffi cient.
The Reel and 11 bite was defeated by Niagara
University, 19 to 14, in a game replete \Vith
thrills that kept the stands on edge throughout
the game. The thrills were supplied by the won­derful
aerial attacks which 1both teams used to
the utmost advantage. The Reclmen led 14 to 0
in the first quart.er, but in the second quarter
their inability to stop long passes hurled by Sni­der
of the vi itor s. res ulted in their downfall.
In the second half, neither team was able to
1 reak through for a score.
Incidentally. the School of Commerce is well
represented on the Football Squad. Harry
Meyers, one of the fla shiest broken field runner.
ST. JOHN'S ANALYS ;-f 5
ever developed in the city high schools, is the
regular quarterback. Alfred Gallo, one of the
few ten-second men \\·ho pe rform n the gnd­iron,
showed his versatile aibility in the l\Ian­hattan
game. Previous to this game Gallo was
the regular halfback, but clue to the lack oi e1~"·'
Coach Lynch assigned him to play encl. An,l
how he did play it! Another star encl on the
team is Ray l\1ann, whose steady work as a
wingman has brought him great praises from
all who have seen him perform. Others from
ur school are Kaplan , Satz and Lycl ing.
From the 57-20 setback received at the hands
of Lehigh at Bethlehem it would appear that \\·e
were badly beaten. However, when one con­siders
that the Vincentians made five fumble~ .
which were subsequently turned into touch­clo,
Yns, and that the strong University of Penn­sylvania
aggregation only defeated Lehigh by
the slim margin of a field goal, it is apparent
that we were not disgraced.
T,he best brand of football that the team has
yet displayed was exhibited in the l\1anhattan
game. Seeking revenge for the 14-7 defeat sus­tained
last year, the Reel and "\Vhi te repul sed the
Jaspers convincingly and completely. Every
man fJ layed in spirational football. T he whole
team was "up and at 'em". Abe l\1argo!ic; ,
fla shy all scholastic halfback from New Utrecht,
who has acquired the sobriquet of "helmetless
horseman," led the attack on the visitors \\·ith
two touchdowns. Ray l\Iann and l\Iac Kins­brunner
scored the other touchdown s. In c1se
you have forgotten, the final sco re w.1s 26-7.
Loyola scored a surpri sing victory over the
Red and vVhite in a game which was feat ured
by forward passing. Evidently a,\·are of the
inability of the Vincentians to prevent passes
from reaching their destination. the Loyola team
resorted to that offensive and succeeded in scor­ing
three touchdowns. T.he final score was 20-7.
The Loyola game was expected to bring another
victory to the li st of the team. Instead, the
Baltimore lads reversed the result of last year's
game. vVell, an easy victory over City wiJI
destroy the stigma of defeat.
"\i\ ell, nothing else matters. vV e are practi­cally
assured of a successful footba ll season as
a result of the very decisive victory over City
College, •by the score of 25 to 0. By virtue ot
the defeat of the Lavender. the championship of
the "Little Three," which is comprised of Man­hattan,
City College, and St. J ohn's, is brought
t the Reel and "\i\Thite.
This was the first time that St. John's and City
~ollege met on the gridiron. May all succeed­mg
games between both in st itutions result in
such easy victories for St. John'·. To make the
defeat more hurnilating, the Vincentians beat
City at their own game, forward passing. And
what a powerful forward passing attack we
exhibited. Out of twenty-two attempted passes,
fifteen \\·ere completed, averaging from ten to
fifteen yards each. Suc.h an aerial attack could
hardly have been excelled by other elevens. Af­ter
the regulars had scored a total of nineteen
points in the fir st half. the substitutes played the
remainder of the game. Stephens and Margolies
starred for the Reel and "\i\fhite. Incidentally, the
game was played before 10,000 spectators at
Lewisohn Stadium. There are two home games
left on the schedule. Give the team your whole­hearted
support and encourage it on to victory.
Attend the St. Thomas, and De Paul games at
Dexter Park! All ready? Let's go!
Soccer
Most of us are unaware of the existence of
our soccer team. The interest manifested toward
the team by the students is suffi cient to discour­age
the most ardent playe r. Neverthel ess, our
soccer team has improved greatly over la st
) car's. Four games have already been played.
Two were victo ries and two resulted in defeat s.
The victories were achieved at the expense of
the German Field Club, 7-2, and the Panser
Teachers College, 2-1. The def ea ts were received
at the hands of two powerful teams. Lehigh
cour nemesis?) beat us, 7-2, and Army required
two extra periods to clown us, 3 to 2.
Here and There With the Bench Warmers
Bill Paige formerly of St. John's is playing a
~tellar game for the Brooklyn Visitations.
Captain l\Iax Posnack is regarded by t he
sporting writers as one of the greatest all­round
basketball players in the country.
St. John's inaugurated football in 1924 with
an undefeated season. Fordham was among the
vanquished.
"Bob" Damm, formerly of St. John's High, in
a baseball game with Hoboken High, struck out
thirty men in twelve innings.
Eddie Dooley, now coaching foot ball at St.
J ohn's1 was an All-Easterp quarterback at Dart­mouth.
Jimmy "Rip" Collins last year's basketball
captain has joined the Crescent Club.
John F . Blake, a professor, whom most of us
have had. \Yas an all-round athlete at Niagara
University .
"Taps" Gallegher, who is the coach of Basket­ball,
Baseball, and Football at St. John's High
School, is a student at the Law School.
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6 ST. JOHN'S ANALYST
Upper Classmen
We are an intellectual lot
Of k nowledge we have plenty.
T here is no more that we can learn
Our cranium's not empty.
The wise professor tries and tries
To make us more intelligent
The task is quite impossible
And also is irrelevant.
'vVe come to class I k now not why
We know what's to be learned,
There's nothing new in lecture room
As far as we're concerned.
For we know a thing or two,
And to tell us what to do
Is qui te impertinent I say,
For we know a thing or two .
Familiar Sig hts . .. Bill Satz seen nearly al­ways
chastising a freshman ... funny that way
. . . Rotund Blumen and his Kiddie Kar . .. has
to open both doors. to get seated ... Nonchalant
Dave Huck becoming more nonchalan t ... Jack
Nutley getting handsomer and handsomer ...
Charl ie Rothman's way of dre sing ... Charlie
E cigette recommending Rockville enter as the
ideal place to live ... reminds me of the fact
that a few of tl;e fellows have become "traveling
salesmen" . .. that is, candy butchers to and from
Long· I sland .. . Marion \ i\Tilcler coming late to
class . ..
Among the Profs ... Wonder whether Pro­fessor
Nelson spells problem P-R-0-H-B-L-E-M
... lf all the ta le· Professor Hewes t ell s were
laicl encl to encl they probably woulcl make the
months best seller ... 'vVonder if Professor
Harper is ever wrong ... \i\There our law pro-fessor,
Mr. Felclman, buys hi s charming shirts
and t ies .. .
Likes ... The secretaries in the office ... The
new builcling ... That janitor. Frank. on our
floor .. . The o•blig ingest man as it were . .. That
certain co-eel ... The other chap's cigarettes.
Dis1ikes ... That evening class, in H istory of
Education .. . Manny Moscowitz ... sing in g . . .
Sam Scherer accompanying ... Some too con -
spicuous chaps . .. The exit and entrance we are
forced to make ... This column . . . That's all . ..
Lower Sophomore Meeting
An informal meeting of the lower sophomore
class was held in room 705 on W eclnesclay, Octo­ber
29. Salvatore Salamone acted in his official
capacity as the new president.
The class is so rry to inform t he students that
Harry Dubin was forced to leave school because
of illness. It was decided to present Harry with
an appropriate gift. Liberal contributions were
received for that purpose.
The class has not yet cleciclecl whether to hold
a smoker or da nce this semester.
Sidney Goldberg.
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ST. JOHN'S ANALYST 7
A Pilgrimage to Canterbury
"And specially from every sh ire ·s ende
Of Engeloncle to Caunturbury they wencle
The holy blisful martir for to se ke ."
So wrote Chaucer in the fourteenth century.
For more than two hundred years before Chau­cer'
time, however, the shrine of the "holy
blisful martir," Thomas A. Becket-the great
Archbishop whose genius had dominated all
England, and who had been brutally slain on the
teps of the Cathedral altar-had been the Mecca
of thousands of pilgrimages. Through the olcl
city gates had passed an endless stream of pil­grims-
from kings and queens who came to lay
their royal crowns at the martyr's tomb to the
humblest and poorest folk in the land.
In Chaucer's day the journey was lono· ancl
perilous. His company of pilgrims, st~rting
from the Tabar cl Inn in London, tra veiled on
horseback for five weary days before they
reached St. Thomas' shrine. Today's pilgrim
takes a taxi from his hotel to Victoria Station,
and from there an express train whizzes him to
Canterbury in exactly two hours and twenty
minutes!
The first impression one gets of Canterbury is
that of utter peace and serenity. The terraced
lawns, the long aisles of stately trees, the
crumbling old ivy-covered wall s, the rrabled
houses, and rising a·bove all, the towers ~f the
magnificent cathed ral, combine in ma kin o- ·an
unforgettable picture. One follows the na;row,
winding streets, past quaint old shops with their
quainter old signs, until he enters Mercery Lane,
and then passing through Christ Church Gate
(where_ Chaucer passed six hundred years ago)
finds himself at last in the Cathedral courtyard.
The Cathedral is always thronged with visi­~
ors. Long since stripped of its treasures, the
mt~rior seems bare and cold, and only in imagi­nation
can be seen the color and light and radi­ance
that once was there. Yet scores of rever­ent
pilgrims are gazing at the scene of Becket's
martyrdom, or at the crypt where once his body
lay.
Next to the venerated shrine of St. Thomas,
the object of greatest interest is the tomb of
Edward, the Black Prince (the Prince of \i\Tales
of Chaucer's day) who at the age of sixteen was
a gallant vvarrio r, and at twenty-seven captured
the King of France. Above his tomb hang his
sword and shield, his gauntlets, and his ru sty
armor. Groups of hero-worshipping small boys
gather here, talking in awed whispers.
. Emerging once more into the sunlight, the
pilgrim makes his way clown the High Street and
mto the heart of the city. Here the lover of
Dickens finds himself on familiar ground for
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Canter,bury was Dicken's favorite city, and he
refers to it in his novels again and again.
"It was at Canterbury," says Mr. Mica,Yber,
"Canterbury, my native heath, where we last
met. \i\Tithin the shadow, I may figuratively say,
of that r eligious edifice immortalized by Chaucer,
which was anciently the resort of pilgrims from
the remotest corners; in short, in the immeclia te
neighborhood of the cathedral."
And sure enough, directly opposite the Christ
Church gate stands the old Sun Inn where the
Micawbers lived in times of prosperity, and
where, in the presence of David, Aunt Betsey,
and Tommy Traclclles, Micawber dramatically ex­posed
'(the villain HEEP".
Not far from the cathedral precints we locate
the Kings School, the oldest school in England .
Here Dickens sent little David Copperfield, and
it is of him that we think as we look at the ivied
walls and the quaint old buildings. Near \i\Test­gate
we may find "the house of Agnes," where
David first meets her. 'vVe n :cognize it from
Dickens' description. "The house bulged over
the road; a house with long, low lattice windows
bulging out still further. It was quite spotless
in its cleanliness. The old--fa shioned brass
knocker on the door twinklecl lik e a star, the two
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8 ST . JOHN'S ANALYST
Delta Psi Upsilon
Delta Psi Upsil on opens its " ·inter season " ·ith
the a nnouncement of its Holiday Dance to be
held at the Hotel Bosse rt. Friday eve ning, De-cember
27, 1929. .
Last June, Delta P si Upsi lon me rged with
Gamm Delta Gamma, a frat ernity which had
operated in the night division. The new Delta
Psi Upsilon offic ers a re :
Cha rl es Davidsen -------------- Presid ent
\Yilliarn \i\Tea ry ---------------- Trea surer
DaYicl Huck ____________________ Secretary
H. GIil l\Ian1fo ld ___________ Vice-President
J ack Nutl ey -- ------------- Vice-Presid ent
Allan Beattie ---- --- ----------- -- \ i\Tarclen
Thomas McHale ---------------- \ i\Tarden
In ~he _near _future the fraternity expects to
es tablish it self 111 quarters close to t he school for
the co1w eni ence of its members.
Sigma Omega Psi
Th~. Sigma Omega Psi Fraternity began the
act1Y1ties of the new term by holding its regular
smoker at the Hotel Martinique.
SeYeral leading men of the various chapters
spoke_ upon the histo ry of the fratern ity, its
meamng and, benefits. Among those contribut­ing
,,·ere Professors Nelson, and Hewes, H onor­ary
members, Henry Holzman; Freel Kat z,
Grand Scribe; and Sid Korn, former High Poten­tate
at~- Y. U.
Eight men were pledged as follows: Max
I\erzner, P hilip Spitz, Leo \i\Teiss, I srael Kaplan,
Sidney Eclenbaum, 1urray Bernstein, Abe Hill­sig,
and Oscar Hertz.
It i expected that 111 ore new men will be
pledged at another smoker to be held at a future
elate.
Sigma Omega P i has leased a new home for
the benefit and e nj oyment of its £raters.
The "Shield", t he regular publication of the
fraternity has been taken over by the chapter
at St. John's College, and if the fi rst issue can be
used as a crite rion, future successes can be easily
assured.
At the recent election of office rs, the follow ­ing
frate rs were returned victorious : Hic,h
Potentate, \ i\Tilliam B. Satz; Potentate, B~n
Stern; Bursar, Arthur Blumen; Recording
Scnbe. Paul Factor; Guardian of the P ortals
Le,,·is ~I. Rosenberg . '
Sigma Omega Psi ( psilon Chapter) has been
adjudged at a r ecent council meeting the most
active and promising chapter in the fraterni ty.
Si~·ma Omega Psi has twenty-t hree chapters
with prospects of ne,,· chapters at Yale a ,1cl
Bates Colleges.
Alpha Kappa Phi
The Alpha Kappa Phi fraternity is now hold­ing
meetings regularly at its fraternity rooms on
State Street.
Pleclgees, Jack Cohen and Murray Sherman,
were indu cted as £raters with appropria te ce re­monies
at the last meeting.
Elections \Yere held with the following r e-sul
t s :
Master ------------------ Sidney Goldberg
Bursar-- ---- ----------- - -- Noah Jacowitz
Scribe ---- - --------------- Harry Mircoff
A gold key was presented to Seymour Candee,
past-master, for his able work and service clur­i
ng his te rm of offi,ce.
The fraternity is sorry to say that one of our
brothers, Max Melnick , was forced to leave the
school for a short t ime because of illness. He is
now at his home in Rochester.
Alpha Kappa P hi is now negotiating ,Yith sey­eral
na tional fratern ities for affil iation.
'Nalter Gavagan. Professor of E ng li sh, is our
fa culty advisor.
Sigma Alpha Chi
T he St. J ohn's Chapter of Sigma Alpha Chi
held its first formal meeting of t he season at tbe
frat ernity rooms. The order of dispensing lrn si­ness
was s tarted \Yith th e election of new offi­ce
r s.
David Siegler ,yas elect ed to succeed Harry
Berkowitz as Chancellor; Jack Rosenberg suc­ceeds
Hy Poclber as Scribe; and Harry Klein
succeeds Irving Morganstern as Bursar.
Harry Berkowitz. the outgoing Chancellor.
was appointed chief executive ach,isor.
The order voted the outgoing officers a well
earned thanks for the manner in whi ch they
executed business.
The social as \Yell as the business affa irs of
t he fraternity ,Yere mapped out fo r the ens uing
year, and it is thought that with the influx of
new students, from \Yhich a larger cho ice can be
made fo r new members, the fraternity is bound
to become an eYen stronger organization than
it is at present.
Sophomore : " \\.hat is your greatest ambi-tion,
Frosh?"
Freshman : "To die a year before you do."
Sophomore : "\Yhat's the reason for that?''
Freshman: "So I will be a Sophomore in hell
\\"hen you get ther e."-\ Vhirlwind.
ST. JOHN'S ANALYST 9
Moving
Slo,,·ly through the fo re st, lit by moon a lone
l\loYes the silent r ider
On horse less fl esh than bone.
Bumping o'er the pra irie, de olate and bleak,
\Yest,yarcl toward the bright sun
The coye red \Yagons creak.
J olting on the post-road-silent, black at night,
Thoughts of fear and hatred
The stage-coach travelers fight.
P ushing past the landscape-pictures that are
real,
Speeds the locomotive
On endless rai ls of st eel.
Racing on the highway, smooth and clean and
"·icle,
Streams of speeding motors
In face of danger rid e.
Thrill ing high above us, clouds and earth belo,Y,
Seeing all t he world at once
T he daring fliers go.
}-Im· ing ever onward, fo rward to,Yard the goal,
Round and round and round and r ound
The ,,·heels of progress rol l.
Sarah E ngel, A- 19 16.
Analyzing the Shows
WITH SA1\1UEL SCHER
"Sweet Adeline"
"Sweet Adeline" is a g reat -big, bea utiful musi­cal
comedy of the gay ninetie s, ri ch in swinging
music well sung, beautiful girls, hil a rious com­edy,
smart ly rics and of course, Helen Morgan.
The book is a new twist of the cinclerella theme,
but unlike most musical comedy books this one
is believable. J erome Kern has written a tune­ful
scor e and Mr. Harbach's ly rics provide Miss
l\lorgan with a good many excellent songs. Miss
:i\1organ exhibits an ability never befo re accorded
her, she sings several songs with ·both feet on
the ground and really proves t hat a piano as a
seat is superfluous.
La Morgan is supported by an able cast, all
speciali sts in their r espective lines. Mr. Ham­merstein
has not stinted, the chorus is well­trainec1
and made up of a great many beautiful
ladies, and with the exception of one other is
the best dancing choru s to ,be fo und in the city.
T here are no less than three juveniles, Messr s.
J ohn Seymour, Robert Chisholm and Max Hoff­man,
Jr. Comedy is provided by Irene Franklin,
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BA'l'HTUB V ARIE1'Y
"Gordon," said the genealogist, "is Scotch."
The goofy one looked surpri sed. "I thought
it ,,·as gin," said he.
An opportuni st is a man who finding himself
in hot water decides that he needs a bath any­\\
·ay .
A \Yorlcl \\.ar veteran says it may be true that
the next ,,·ar \Yill be fought in the air, but thank
goodness, cooties can't fly.
DEF I N ITlONS
Detour-A turn for the worse.
Legs-They used to be snapshots; now they're
time expos ures.
GOSSIPS
First Drunk: "You know, my friend, I never
tell secrets to horses. Do you know why?"
Second Drunk: "Nope."
First Drunk: "They carry tales."
It has Yery often been stated that a camel can
go ten days without a drink. But, my clear
friend s, \\·ho in hades wants to be a camel?
l\Iarriage may not soothe a troubled mind but
at least it g iyes one something new to worry
about.
Rrn-Trn-Trn
"l\Iy husband has disappeared," she said to the
man at the desk in the police station. "This is
his portrait. I want you to find him at once."
The inspector looked up from the photograph
and asked, "\\Thy?"
"Our eggs are strictly fresh," advertises a
nimble-witted grocer. "If they were any fresher
they \Youlcl be down- right impertinent."
There are few Americans who have not yet
seen an automO'bile, but plenty who have not
seen one soon eno ugh.
Fox PASS
" l\Iy ne\\· s,yeetie is a reg'lar swell," remarks
Gerti e. "Last night he took me to a restaurant
and poured his tea into a saucer to cool it; but
he didn't blow it like common people do, he
fanned it 1Yith his hat."
Jane: "That was a terrible thing you did . GiY­ing
your wife a bum check."
Jack: "\ \Thy? It was ·better than giving her
a good one."
It is quality not quantity that counts. You
have never yet seen a centipede in the Follie s.
Sometimes silence is impressiv e, and om e­times
it is expressive; but to most women it is
oppressive.
Lady Tourist: "\\There did all those big round
rocks come from?"
Tired Guid e : "The glaciers brought them
here."
L. T.: "But where are the glaciers?"
T.G.: "They have gone back for more rock s.'·
Some footba ll players tackle low, and some
fo rget the kind of a aame it is and reach fo r the
neck.
An Irish applicant fo r a job on the police force
was taking an examination. To the question.
"\ i\That is rabies, and what can be done about
it?" He wrote: "Ra'bies is J ewish priests, and
you can't do nothin' about it."
Grandmother never imagined that she would
live to see the time when her daughters would
get sunburned on the places they do now.
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ST. JOHN'S ANALYST 11
A Pilgramage to Canterbury
( Continued from Page 7)
stone steps were as white as fine linen, and all
the a ng les, and co rners, and carvings, and moLl­ings,
and quaint little panes of glass though old
as the hills, \\·ere as pure as snow."
The 'umble 'ome of Uriah Heep, supposed to
ha,·e been located in North Lane, has long since
been destroyed, but imagination comes to our
aid, and we select one tiny cottage at the encl of
the lane, and try to picture the wily Uriah at the
d oorway, smirking, and ru,bbing his hands.
Xot far from North Lane, on a beautiful
stretch of velvet lawn, and with a background
of silver beeches, stands a monument to Christo­pher
Marlowe, son of a poor Canterbury cobbler,
"·hose shop stood in the yery shadow of the
cathedr a l. Gamester, spendthri ft, and genius,
,niter of plays second only to those of Shake­speare,
whose devoted friend he was, Marlowe
m et a tragic death at the age of twenty-four.
Lengthening shadows tell the traveler that it
is getting late, and that he must hurry to catch
the train back to London. The train leaves the
station just as the vesper bells begin ringing·, and
as the traveler looks back at the fast-disappear­ing
city he gets his last glimpse of the gray tow­e
r: and spires of the cathedral, and hears the last
iaint echoes of the bell, he feels that this has
been one of the great clays of his life, and will
be one of the loveliest of memories.
Sarah Engel, A-1916.
Women's Club
The ·women's Club takes this opportunity to
11·elcome the new freshmen girls. At a recent
meeting, many freshmen \\·ere initated into the
dub. T he purposes of this organization are to
i1elD one another ecl,ucationally and socially.
Elections were held recently. Marion \ i\Tilder
was unanimously reelected president; Dona C.
::\Ia rino, former treasurer, was elected vice­president;
Esther Rosenberg, former secretary,
\\"a S elected treasurer, and Edith 'vVecker was
elected secretary. They \\"ere duly installed at
a Hallowe'en Party that was g iYen in their honor.
The E ntertainment Committee, consisting of
Sarah Dombeck, Rose Chernoff, l\Iar ion \ i\Tild_er
and Dona Marino, is planning the club's soe1al
a ctiYities whi ch will include bridge-parties,
theatre parties, teas and luncheons.
Dona Marino should be lauded. Although
she is only an embryo br idge player, she made a
o-ran cl slam at a recent social meeting of the
fYo men's Club. A chall enge has been extended
to other embryos to accomplish t his feat.
In passing. the \ i\Torn en's Club \Y ishes to thank
::'1Ir s. ·Wilder and Mrs. Mandelsberg w ho gener­o
usly cont rib uted delicious cakes.
:-Iay S. Dworin.
Analyzing the Shows
(Continued from Page 9)
Charles Butterworth, Violet Carl son and Robert
Emmet Keane.
The action takes place in the la st years of the
nineteenth century when men \\·ere men, and
collegia tes sported turtle-neck s\\·eaters.
The book deals with the ri se of Acleli1.1e
Schmidt (Helen Morgan) . She is the daughter
of a Hoboken beer garden proprietor and has
a spirations to the stage and al so to a place in the
heart of Midshipman Tom l\Iartin (l\1ax Hoff­man,
Jr.). Musical comedy librettos are not
musical comedy librettos unless complications
ensue. This is no exception and complications
do r ise. The complications, ho,yeyer, in this case,
are a godsend, for they give l\Ii ss l\Iorgan an
opportunity to become tragic and sing Mr. Kern's
music in her own inimitable manner. The com­plication
in this case is Adeline's si ster, Caryl
Bergman, who also .has designs on the handsome
l\lr. Martin. Miss Schmidt, the younger, is an
ardent adherent of the North,Yest Mounted
slogan, "get your man", she gets him as you 110
doubt have g uessed and gives Adeline a chance
to war ble "Here Am I". l\1r. l\Iartin goes to
,1·ar, the Spanish American 'vVar, of which you no
doubt have heard. Adeline's sister is a •one-man
woman, one man at a time, and she immediately
makes a new conquest; enter complication num­ber
two, Robert Emmet Keane. l\Ir. Kea1:ie
plays the part of a burlesque troupe manager,
and husband of the star. Adeline suspects that
l\I r. Keane does not mean well by our little Nell
and she goes to the burlesque theatre to make
these facts known to the burlesque queen, Irene
Franklin. She meets t he Day brothers, Rupert
and Tom, Charley Butterworth and Robert Chi s­holm.
Jake, the orchestra leader Q ohn Sey­mour)
hears Adeline sing and penmts her to
warbl~ his pet composition. "\i\Thy \Vas I Born" .
Miss Morgan straddles a piano and enchants the
audience with her rendition of this Kern master­piece.
Tom Day and Jake become ~namoured :)f
Adeline. Dot, Adeline's friend. V10let Carson.
falls in love with Rupert Day. Thus encleth act
the first.
The second act finds Adeline a great star, and
the toast of New York. Tom Martin suffers a
change of heart and woos Adeline but she find s
that she really loves Tom Day. T he encl of the
act finds Adeline in the lucky l\Ir. Day's arms.
Rupert in Dot's arms, and Addie's sister in Tom
Martin's arms.
Due credit must be given the comedians and
comediennes for the success of the play. \ Ve
can safely say that the performances of C_ha rl es
Butterworth Violet Carlson, Irene F rankl111 and
RO'bert E m1-r:ett Keane are the best of their suc­cessful
careers.
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Among the Juniors
_-\s has been the custom in class 5920, a friendly
riYa lry in the matter of elections provided an
atmosphere fraught with excitement. The
interest shown by the students and the wealth
of material in the class add to the occas ion of the
selection of officers fo r the coming term.
For the presidency, Arthur Blumen opposed
Charles Edgette. The latter candidate was vic ­torious.
The vice-presiclental race presented
three canclida tes, viz., J oseph l\Ia rgolis, George
:\IcHugh and William Wasserman. Mr. Mar­o-
o lis won by a substantial margin. For secre­ta
ry, three members of the fair sex, the ~isses
Chernoff Dombeck and vVilcler were non11natecl.
:\Iiss Do~1beck was re-elected and continues as
Class Secretary for the second succes sive term.
To the credit of the class it must be stated that
no bitterness has ever been evidenced by any
student at the outcome of an election. The offi­cers
are always assured of the hearty co-opera­tion
of the entire class, which as the charter
class has ·been leaclin o- the way in a manner be­fittin'o
· a o-rou1) of students of St. John's College. b b
A 5929
This term's elections were probably the most
hotly contested in the School of Accounting.
Political parties expounding their candidates and
soliciting votes have taken the spare time of
many for the last month.
The results \\"ere exciting and conclusive in the
final balloting. H. Gill l\Ianifolcl was agam
chosen president. This is the second successive
term for the big lumber man; and if he can
stao-e another class dinner as successfully as the
lasf his election is well worth while, even if he
clich~'t get a summer session.
Harry Berkowitz was the people's choice for
Yice-pre siclent. Miss Lanning successfully put
aside all competition as sec retary. Mr. Edward
_-\llen was finally selected as treasurer.
A busy season is ahead of these successful
candidates if all the contemplated plans for a
year book, Junior Prom, and class dinner mater­ialize.
Let's all g ive the offi.cers all t he cooperat1on
and help poss i,bl e. This is t he best way of show­ing
our congratulations on. t heir success.
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be gratefully accepted by the "St. John's Anal­yst"
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Student Council Activities
The student council, com posed of the officers
of the yarious dasses, held the first meeting of
the season, Thursday, November 7, 1929. Both
the clay and night divis ion met after their respec­tive
classes. The principal business discussed
was the social activities for the coming season.
Following the prevailing custom of holding an
ann ual banquet, a lengthy discussion on that
subj ect took place. The arrangements, which
are as yet tentative, call for such an affair early
in January, to be held at one of the principal
hotels in the city.
A committee composed of ;,.Ir. Steinberg, Miss
\ i\Te intraub. and Mr. Berkman of the Night Divi­sion
\Yi ll \\·ork with a like committee of the Day
Division to make arrangements for this affair,
which at this early elat e, begins to assume the
appearances of a great success.
Bewildered Law V students \Yanclerecl through
the halls of the seventh flo or. A sense of un­r
eality and uncert ainty gripped them. A class
ended witho ut Harry l\Ieyers asking a question
Beattie.
16 ST . JOHN'S ANALYST
A SURVEY OF
STUDENT CONDITIONS
What Do You Get Out of Your Studies
By DAVID SCHERER
[Editor·s Note : This is the first of a series of articles
by the author.]
"vVhat am I getting out of my studies?" There
is onl y one r eply, "As much as you are putting in
to them." Studying is very much like the game
of "give and take". You g ive your self, your
undivided attention and your co ncentrated effo.rt,
and in r eturn you receive knowledge, satisfac­tion
and contentment.
In answer to the query, " \ iVhat subj ects did
you like best during your high school course?"
one hundred and fifty-thr ee out of two hundred
and forty-two students chose Engli sh, History
and Bookkeeping were clo se second-s. _The Ro­mance
lan o-ua o-es were amon~st the tail-enders. b b ~
From these statistics one can see very clearly
that it is not the subj ect , but the amount of study
that a student puts into the subject that determ­ines
the value.
Delvino- furth er into statistics, students who
studied c~nscientiously three to four hours daily,
gener ally received higher grades than those who
studied two hours daily . (In rare cases students
who study two hours daily derive as much bene­fit
as those who study a greater length of time.
In these cases, however, environmental condi­tions
and the psychological limit of the student
must be carefully considered.)
Conditions essenti al to proper studyin g a r e :
1. A willingness to study .
2. A quiet and well-ventilated r oom.
3. A straight-back chair.
\ iVith apologies to Ralph \!Valdo Emerson, we
conclude by say ing : "'.T'is th~ good r_ead ~,r that
maketh the good and 111terest111g subiect.
Lecture on Photo-Engraving
i\1r. Griffin , an expert in the fie ld of photo­engraving,
fav ored the students of the Eco­nomics
9901 class on Thursday, November 7,
with an intere sting talk upon the subj ect of
photo-engraving. The processes and details of
t his art were expla ined to the students, as oniy
one who has had long experi ence in the field
could visualize. It is hoped that Mr. Griffin will
again honor the class with his presence some
time in the near future.
During the recent Wall Street crash, American
Can went off quite a few points in value. No
doubt this ,Yas considered merely a drop in the
bucket.
Class Officers
The r esult s of the recent class elections 111
which officers wer e chosen fo r the present sem­est
er, are as fo llows:
Clas.s A-5929
President H. Gill l\lanifolcl
Formerly attended Flush ing High School
Vice-President._ _____________ Harry Berkowitz
Formerly a tte nded Seward Park High School
Secr etary ---------------- Eleanor F . Lanning
Formerly attended Girls' Commercial High School
Treasurer --- ------------------- Edward Allen
Class A-5920
President ----- - - ---------- --- Charles Edgett~
Formerly atte nd ed St. Agnes' High School
Vice-President __________ __ _ J oseph l\1argolies
Former ly attended James Madison High School
Secretary-Treasurer _______ __ Sarah Dombeck
F ormer ly attended Girls' Commercial High School
·Class A-4928
P resident -- ------------------ Abraham Holly
Formerly atte nded C. C. N. Y.
Vice-President ---------------- --- - Frank Ott
Formerly attended Alexa nder Hamilton High School
ecretary ---------------------- Elsie Arrig:1i
Formerly at te nded New Utrecht High School
Treasu rer ------- - --------- - Irvin g Grossman
Form erly atten ded Boys' High School
Class A-4919
Preside nt -------------------- Marvin Lyding
Formerly atte nded Alexander Hamilton High School
Vice-President __________ Emanuel l\fosko,\·1tz
Formerly a ttended Alexa nder Hamilton High School
Secretary-Tr easurer -------- - ----- Beryl Neal
Formerly attended Franklin K. Lane High School
Class A-3927
President --- - ------- ------- Karl F. Kirchofer
Formerly atten ded Richmond Hill High School
Vice-President - -------- --- E ugene Steinberg
For'rner ly attended New Utrecht High School
. Treasurer --- ---------------- Mary Dubinsky
Formerly attended Thomas J effe r son High School
Clas.s A-3918
President, ------------- -- - Salvatore Salomone
F ormerly attended E rasmus Hall High School
Vice-President - ---- -------------- Nat \ \Tilson
Formerly attended J ames Madison High School
Secr etary --- - ----- - -------- - Dona C. l\far ino
F ormer ly attended Erasmus Hall High School .
Treasurer ------------------ ? iclney Goldberg
Formerly atte nded Boys' High School
ST. JOHN'S ANALYST 17
Class A-2925
President ------- ---------- - \ :V illiam F . Hundt
Formerly attend ed Franklin K. Lane High School
Vice-President -------------- Vincent Bennett
Formerly attended Yonkers High School
Secreta ry ---------------------- Rubin J acobs
Formerly attended James Madison High School
Treasurer ------------------ Roland G. Nelson
Formerly atte nded New Utr ec ht High School
Class A-2917
President ----- ----------- J oseph Longobardi
Formerly attended LaSalle lVIilitary Academy
Vice-President --------- -- - Kenneth Spauldi!1g
Formerly attended St. John's H igh School
Treas urer - -------------------- Jack DeGrace
Formerly attended Rugby Preparatory School
.3ec retary ----------- ----- Henrietta Bearman
Formerly atte nded James Madison High School
Class A-1922
President ----------------- - - - -- Samuel Stein
Formerly atttended New Utrecht Hig h School
Vice-Presiclent ------------- - -- Samuel Gittier
Formerly atte nded New York Eveni ng High School
Treasurer ------------------- Sarah Gamberg
Formerly attended G:r ls' Commercial High School
Class A-1921
President - - -------------- Ralph \ A,1. Fairbanks
Formerly at te nded Manual Training High School
Vi ce-President _____ _______ Harold F. Stevens
Formerly attended Wal,ton School of Accounting
Treasurer ------------- - - -- Gussie Rosenberg
Formerly att ended Washington Irving High School
Class A-1915
President Martin Zamore
Formerly attended Thomas J effe rson High School
Vice-President __ _____________ Michael Micari
Formerly attended Southampton High School
Secretary ----- --------- --- --- R uth Bonengel
Formerly attended Newtown High School
Treasurer -------------------- Arthur Salmon
Formerly atte nded Polytechnic Preparatory School
Class A-1924
President ____________________ J erome Gelford
Vice-Presid ent ___________ _______ Henry Rudin
Secretary __ ______________ __ George H. Becht
Treasurer ----- -------------- Samuel Vincent
Class A-1923
President ---------------------- T. A. Rogers
Vice-President - ---- ----- --- -- - --- J. B. White
Treasurer - ----------------------- J. Bernard
Secretary --- - --------- - -- ------ Miss Feeney
If Columbus Decided to Discover America
in a Modern Way
One Act Play
Act I, Scene I
Columbus : "Li st en, fellows, this place is get­ting
too small to suit me. How about going out
and discovering another country so that we can
have plenty of place to run our parties and park
our cars. \Vhat do you say?"
Gang of College Boys: "It's oke with us Co­lumbo
old boy, lead us to it."
Col. : "Of course you realize that we have no
ships and money to set out on such an expedi­tion.
H owever, I have a drag with the Queen's
chambermaid, Nell , and I'll see w hat I can do.''
G. of C. B.: "Good old Columbo !"
Scene II
Nell's Chamber
Col. : and you see how I stand. vVe
must get the money and s hips, see what you
can do."
Nell: "Say li sten boy, you k now I can do any­thing
I set out to do. I'm the original kid. I
know my stuff. I'll see the Queen tonight, and
what I won't tell her won't be much."
Col.: "Atta girl."
Scene III
Queen's Boudoir
Queen I sabella: "Oh Lucy, I simply am pe r­plexed.
Here the Count Declo is corning to see
me and I don't knovv what to put on."
Nell: "Does the king know that your new
B. F. is coming to see you?"
Queen: "Sh, sh, not so loud. Of course not."
Nell ( sees a chance to get the Queen in a hole) :
"I feel it is my duty as an honorable su·bject of
Lhe king, to t ell him of your philanderings and
a s sure as a horse has four legs I'm gonna do it
tonight."
Queen: "You don't dare, you little hussy."
Nell: "Say, keep your negligee on. The King
is a pal of mine and should kno.w. However, fo r
a sli g ht consideration, I'll keep mum."
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18 ST. JOHN 'S ANALYST
If Columbus Decided to Discover America
Continued from Page 17)
Queen (giving Nell the money) : "Now r e­member,
Nell, say it ain't so, say it ain't so."
Scene IV
Aboard the good ship "Padoonko"
Col.: "\i\T ell , here we are, let's go. Have you
.all the girls aboard and the wine and booze?"
Bartender: "Yes, every thing, chief, eve ry­thing."
(They set sail. College boys sing and dance,
,others play bridge, some shoot craps, others are
necking heavily while some are trying to figure
o ut last year's income tax.)
Scene V
T,Yo clays later
Col. : "Land, land, land. Vv e have discovered
sornethi ng !"
Coll. Boys: "Aw, get back in your \\·igwam,
that's only a dead whale."
Col.: "Excuse me, it must have been a
111' 1rage. "
Scene VI
A clay later
(They discover an island and mid tumultuous
s hout of ''whoopee" and Hot Da,Yg," they land.)
Col.: "V\T e have been justly rewarded for our
efforts."
Coll. Boys : "Lay off the sob stuff and let's
get some chow mein and pork."
.. . And that, ladies and gentlemen, was how
Columbus and his crew discovered America, the
land ,Yhere nothing is free and the bootlegge rs
are brave.
(Editor's Note : For the benefit of those Irish
among us who read only He·brew the play has
lJeen ,nitten in English. Thank you! )
Those students that elect the study of Eng­g
li sh in the future, would be doing a wise thing
if they would get next to Mr. Genga, for he has
t he most peculiar and profitable habit of buying
c' econd-hand •books. Fifteen or twenty cents
being the maximum price.
During the summer Mr. Hewes asked a ques­tion
in the Economic History Class. One stud­ent
yelled out, " \ i\T ere you trying to find out if
we were paying attention?"
l\Ir. Hewes: "No, I'm not worried about that.
There is only one student, who, I 'm afraid, does
not pay attention. That student is Klein."
l\Ir. Klein at the time was sleeping comfort­ably
in the back of the room. The stud ents next
to him woke him up and asked him to answer the
question that was not directed to him.
l\Ir. Klein paused awhil e and said, "Mr. Hewys
will you kindly repeat the question ·because I
have fi,·e answers and I want to see which is the
correct one."
An Apologia
An erroneo us impression must be rectified.
The g irls of St. John's feel that there is antagon­ism
towards them, that they are being sub­merged
by a silent wave of animosity. You err,
clear ladies, err gravely. Logically, how could a
mere mortal man re sist the wistful eyes of
sylphlike creatures? If you doubt that they are
sylphlike, look about the classrooms and you will
be astounded. The otherwise drab classrooms,
although they represent the best in ultra modern
school architecture, become picturesque and
colorful with the varied hues. Instead of harsh
grating masculine voices the breezes or drafts
waft mellifluous tones to the ear. If you doubt
that li sten attentively as one of the sweet young
things r eplies or a sks questions ( of course very
few questions) and you will be amazed, to say
the least. All this irrefutable logic should con­found
our femini st s, who demand justice. As an
after thought, it is but just to acid that the dis ­ciples
of Jurgen are ever ready to di spense jus­tice
and stand with swords drawn to right any
wrong. Ruben Jaffe.
She : "You say you were arrested on the
night of your wedding, but the judge let you
off?"
H e: "Yes, he said he couldn't give me a worse
sentence !"-Life.
He: "How old are you?"
Tiny Tot: "Three years."
He: "I'll give you a dollar if you'll give me a
ki ss."
Tiny Tot: "Give me the dollar fir st."
He: "You're more than three years olcl."­College
Humor.
An expert says that it costs more to travel
than formerly. He might add that it costs more
to stay home.
Some fellows can take a drink of liquor and
let it alone, and then take another and let that
alone, and so on-all night.
One good feat ure about living in an apartment
house is that you always have ~omething to look
forwa rd to-the time when you can live som'e­where
else.
In the Law class of 2925, while di scussing
some cases the instructor said, "Here's one about
8. travelling salesman." One student who was
not paying attention shouted out , 'Tm ready
let's go!" Mr. Cahill read over the case and
cleciclecl to ~)ass it by .
S T. JOHN 'S ANALYST 19
We Recommend:
"The Little Show": This is positively the best
:nusical revue that has hit town in recent years.
After having seen it three t imes we still believe
that it is the best entertainm ent in town.
"George ·white's Scandals: The hit song of
this show is "Bigger and Better Than Ever", it
may be bigger but it is not better, in fact it is a
bit below the standard set by the other George
\Vhite revues.
"Sketch Book": Patsy Kelly makes this show
,\'11at it is.
"Great Day" : Its many postponements for im­provements
have not clone this one much good.
The music is its saving feature.
"Hot Chocolat es" : Not up to the standard set
by Blackbirds.
Also don't fail to see "Strictly Dishonorable",
"June Moon", "Rope's Encl", "The Subway l\T ur­cle
r", "Many \i\Tater s", "Criminal Code" .
Mrs. J ones : "I hear Mr s. Smith's baby fell
out of the window the other clay. \ i\Tas it hurt
much?"
Smart Aleck : "No, it was a bouncing baby ."
N o'r So CRAzY
A prominent and exceedingly prosperous ~e\\·
Yorker recently suffered a nervous breakdown.
H is condition was so seri ous-be did not even
recognize members of his family-acc ordingly
he was removed to an up- state sanitarium. His
\\·i fe visited him two or three t imes a week but
although his general condition improved '1e
failed to recognize her.
The other clay, however, he became conscious
of the presence of his good looking nurse and
calling her up to his bedsid e, he kissed her. Im­mediately
afterward, he begged her pardon for
doing so.
"That's all right," replied the nurse. "I'm
glad to know that you recognize me. \i\Then I
tell the doctor that you know me, and kissed me
it will be a feather in my cap."
"That k iss will be a feather in your cap?"
asked the patient.
"Yes, I'm sure of it," she replied.
"Come back here," he brightened up sud de nly.
"And I'll nmke an Indian Princess out of you."
UNDER 'rHE HEADIKG OF SCOTCH
Apropos of the safety campaign that is being
carried on at the present time a teacher in one
of the public schools asked her children if they
understood the traffic signals on our main
st r eet s.
One of the little boys explained the lights in
this way:
"The reel light means stop, the green lig ht,
go ."
"Ancl the yellow light?" a sk ed the teacher.
"That's to give Scotchmen the signal to sta rt
their motors."
FoR THE TRADE
\i\Thile at lunch one clay t\Yo pa rtners in the
cloak and suit business were bemoaning the cold
weat,her and it s effect on their business, when
one of them suddenly let out a yell.
"vVhat's the matter, Mac?" asked the other.
"Something terrible. I forgot to lock the safe
at the office," replied the other.
"Don't get excited, Mac," retorted the other.
"There's nothing in it and even if there was, ain't
I here with you?"
"Diel his broker carry him?"
"Yes, along with several pallbearers."
"vVhat became of your prisoner?"
"He stopped, sir, and as I had received no
command t9 halt, I kept right on walking, and
unfortunate ly my ,bayonet went right through
him."-College Humor.
20 ST. JOH N'S ANALYST
New York C. P. A. Act
Signed by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt,
on April 3, 1929, as Chapter 261 of the Laws of 1929
~
(REPRINTED BY REQUEST)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE EDUC TION 1497. Copartnerships.
LAW, IN RELATION TO THE PUBLIC 1498. Department supervision.
PRACTICE OF ACCOUNTANCY BY CER- 1498-a. The ame.
TIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNT ANTS. 1499. Effect of im-alid provisions.
The People of the State of New York, re pre- Sec. 1489. Definitions. As used in this article:
sented ·in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : ( 1) "department" means the education department
Section 1. Article fifty-seven of chapter twenty- of the State of New York, as conshtuted by the
one of the laws of nineteen hundred nine, entitled education law; (2) " regents" means the board of
"An act relating to education, constituting chapter regents o·f the uni versity of the state of New York;
sixteen of the consolidated laws," as amended by ( 3) "council" means the council on accountancy
chapter one hundred and forty of the laws of nine- which may be constituted by section fo urteen hun­teen
hundred ten as such article was added to chap- dred and ninety-one of this article; ( 4) "commit­ter
eighty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred tee" means the committee on grievances constituted
twenty-seven, is hereby repealed and a new article by section fourteen hundred and ninety-fiw· of thi~
fifty-seYen added in place thereof, to read as follows: article; ( 5) "board" means the board of certified
Aritcle 57 public accountant examiners
Certified Public Accountants constituted by section four-
Sec. 1489. Definitions. IMPORT ANT CHANGES IN teen hundred and ninety of
1490. Board of certified NEW LAW this article; ( 6) the public
public accountant 1. Increases the Board of Ex- practice of accountancy within
examiners. aminers from three to five members. the meaning of t his article is
1490-a. Qualifications and 2. A Council of Accountancy is defined as follows: A person
expenses. created to consist of eminent certi- engages in the public practice
1490-b. Organization and fi ecl public accountants and to advise of accountancy who, holding
meetings o f the with the Regents and the Board on himself out to the public. as
board. Accountancy matters. an accountant, in consiclera-
1490-c. Receipts and dis- 3. A Grievance Committee is es- tion of compensa:tion received,
bursements. tablished to hear charges of fraud. or to be received by him
1490-cl. Records . deceit or gross negligence against offers to perform or does per-
1491. Council on account- certified public accountants and to form, for other persons, serv-ancy.
make recommendations to the Re- ices which involve the audit-
1492. Certified pub 1 i c gents on revocation and reissue of ing or verification of financial
accountants. certificates. transactions, books, accounts
1492-a. Inclorsements of 4. The Education R equirement or records, or the preparation.
certificates of other is changed in that after a date spec- Yerification or ce1,tification of
states. ified a candidate for C. P. A. ex- financial accounting and re-
1493. Penalties and their aminations must present evidence of lated statements intended for
collection. satisfactory completion of an ap- pu'blication or for the purpose
1494. Revocation or sus- proved course in Accountancy in of obtaining credit, ·or who.
p('.!nsion. a college rl'cogni::::ed by the Board holding himself out to the
1494-a. The same. of Regents. public as an a·ccountant, ren-
1494-b. Revocation of in- clers professional services or
clorsements. assistance in or about any 01
Sec. 1495 . Committee on grievances. ?ll matters of principle or detail relating to account-
1495-a. Jurisdiction of committee. ing procedure or the recording, presentation or cer-
1495-b. Proceedings before committee. tification of financial facts or data.
1495-c. Subpoena , oaths, evidence. .Sec. 1490. Board of certified public accountant
1495 -d. Order of certiorari. examiners. There is hereby created a board of
1495-e. Disqualifica:tions. ctrtifiecl public accountant examiners consisting of
1495-f. Removal from office. at least five members, who shall be appointed by
1495-g. Rules and regulation . the regents within sixty clays after this article be-
1495-h. Certificates of dismissal of charges. comes effective. T he members of the board first
1495-i. Suspensions in certain cases. appointed hereunder shaH be appointed to serve for
1496. Reissue of certificates. the following terms respectively: One member for
1496-a. The same. one year; one member for two yea.rs; one member
1496-b. The same. for t'hree years; one member for four years; and
ST. JOHN 'S ANALYST 21
1.me member for five years. On the expiration of
each of said terms, the term of office of each newly
appointed or reappointed member of the board shall
be for a period of five year s. In addition the re­gents
may at any time appoint such number of
additional members of the board, for terms to be
fixed by the -regents, but not exceeding five years
each, as the regents may deem reasonably neces­sary
for the efficient and expeditious performance
of the duties of the board. The .total number of
members of the hoard shall be an odd number. T he
regents may remove any member of the bo,trcl from
office who shall have been found guilty, after clue
notice and a hearing, of misconduct, incompetency,
or neglect of duty in office. Vacancies in the mem­bership
of the board, however created, shall be filled
by appointment by the regents for the unexpired
term , but no vacancy shall be deemed necessarily to
exist so long as there shall be five members of the
board in office.
Sec. 1490-a. Qualifications and expenses. Each
member of the board shall be a citizen of the United
States and a resident of t he state at the time of
his appointment. He s·hall have been engaged in
the public practice of accountancy for at least five
years, and shall have been a certified public account­;
rnt for at least two years. Each member of the
board shall receive reasonable compensation, to be
fixed by the regents, fo r attending sess ions of the
board and for the time spent in examining appli­cants
for the certificate of certified public account­,,
nt under this article, and in necessary travel, and
in addition shall be reimbursed for all necessary
traYel and other actual expenses incurred in carry­ing
out any of the provisions of t his article. Each
member of the board shall receive a certificate of
appointment from the regents and before entering
upon his term of office shall file with the secretary
of state the constitutional oath of office. The re­gents
shall have power to employ a clerk and such
deputy clerks as may be reasonably necessary to
assist the board in the keeping of its records and
in the performance of its duties. The salaries of
the said clerk and deputy clerks respectively shall
bf' fixed by the regents. The board shall have power,
subj ect to approval by the regents, to make such
rules, not, inconsistent with law, as may be reason­ably
necessary in the performance of its duties .
Sec. 1490-b. Organization and meetings of the
board. The board shall hold a meeting within thirty
clays after its members are fir t appointed, and
thereafter shall in the month of May in each year
hold a regular annual meeting, at which it shall elect
from its members a chairman, a vice-chairm an and
a secretary. Other regular me tings shall be held
at such times as the rules of the board may provide,
and such special meetings shall be held as may be
necessary or advisable in the judgment of the board,
or a majority thereof, or upon the call of the de­partment.
Notice of all meetings shall be given in
such manner as may be provided in said rules. A
quorum of the board shall consist of a majority of
its members. ·
Sec. 1490-c. Receipts and disbur sements. All
moneys deriyec) from and through the operation of
this article shall be paid over to the department,
which shall pay therefrom all expenses incurred in
carrying out the provisions of this article and annu­ally
shiall pay into the treasury of the state any por­tion
of the moneys so received which may remain
after the payment of said expenses.
Sec. 1490-d. .Records. T he board shall keep a
written record of its proceedings. The department
shall keep a register of all applicarnts approved for
the certificate of certified public accountant by the
board, showing with respect to each applicant his
name, age, educa:tion, and other qualificart:ions, place
of business and place of res,iclence, whether or not
an examination was required, and whether the ap­plication
was refused or a cer tificate of certified
publi,c accountan,t i,ssued to .the applicant, and the
date of such action. The department shall also
keep a register of all copartnerships to which certi­ficates
of registration shall 'be issued pursuant
to section fourteen hundred and ninety-seven of
this articl e. In any civi'l or criminal action, pros­ecution,
trial, hearing or proceeding arising out
of or fo unded upon any provision of this article,
the books and registers of t he department, or a
certificate as to the contents thereof 'bearing the
seal of the department and signed by the com­missioner
or an assistant commissioner of educa­tion,
shall be prima fac ie evidence of all matters
stated therein.
Sec. 1491. Council on accountancy. The re­gents
may at any time appoint a council on ac­countancy
to advise with the department, the
board, and any other public officers concerning
any and all matters within the purview of this
artide and the enforcement thereof The per­sons
so appointed shall be certified public ac­countants
eminent in the profession of account­ancy.
They shall serve without compensation.
They shall hold office for three years or until the
appointment and qualification of their successors
respectively. The regents may fill any vacancies
in the counci'l by appoinment for the unexpired
term. The council shall elect one member there­of
as chairman and another member thereof as
secretary. Meetings of the council may 'be held
at any time and place appointed 'by the commis­sioner
or an assistant commissioner of ecluca­ti-
on, or upon the call of any three members of
the council or at the request of a majority of the
board. A majority of the council shall constitute
a quorum.
Sec. 1492. Certified pub'lic accountants. The
certificate of certified public accountant shall be
issued, upon application to the department and
the payment of a fee to be fixed by the depart­ment,
which fee is to accompany the application,
to any citizen of the United States, or to any per­son
who has declared his intention of becoming
such citizen, who resides within the state or has
a place of business the rein, ,"110 is twenty-one
22 ST. JOHN'S ANALYST
years of age or over and of good moral character,
who submits evidence satisfactory to the depart­ment
of the possession of academic and profes­sional
qualifications for the public practice of
accountancy and who passes the examinati on
required by the department; provided, that the
certificate of certified public accountant issued to
any person who has declared his intention of be­coming
a citizen of the United States shall be­come
void at the expiration of eight years from
the elate of the declaration of the intention of
such applicant to become a citizen, unless prior
to the expiration of said eight years evidence is
furni shed to the department that the applicant
has become a citizen of the United States.
Sec. 1492-a. Indorsements of ce rtificates ,)f
other state s. The department may, in its discre­tion,
upon recommendation of the board and the
submission of evidence of professional qualifica­tions
as hereinafter in this section provided, and
without examination, but otherwise subj ect to
the academic and professional qualifications men­tioned
in section fourteen hundred and ninety­two
of this article, and the rules of the regents
promulgated thereunder, including the payment
of a fee to be fixed by the department, indorse
a certificate of cert ified public accountant issued
by the proper authorities of any other state or
political subdivision of the United States, to any
citizen or person who has declared his intention
of becoming a citizen thereof, provided that the
applicant for such inclorsement, since receiving
such certificate, has been engaged in the public
practice of accountancy for three years or more
in one or more of the states or political subdivi­sions
of the United States either on his own ac­count
or as a member of a copartnership or as
an employee of any person engaged in the public
practice of accountancy, and such applicant is
actually so engaged at the time of applicatic, 11
for inclorsement, and is in good and regular
standing as a certified public accountant in each
state or political subdivision of the United States
from which he has received a certificate of certi­fied
public accountant. Such inclorsement shall
be equivalent to a certificate of certified public
or.countant of the state except as otherwise pro­vided
in this article. Such indorsement shall be­come
void in the case of any person not a citiun
of the United States at the expiration of eight
years from the date of his declaration of inten­tion
to become a citizen.
Sec. 1493. Penalties and their collection. ( 1)
Any person who shall
(a) Sell or fraudulently obtain or furnish any
certificate or indorsement of any certificate of
certified public accountant, or aid or abet there­in;
or
(b) Engage in the public practice of account­ancy
as a certified public accountant by virtue
of any certificate or inclorsement of any certifi-cate
of certified public accountant illegally or
frauclttlently obtained by such person, or iss ued
unlawfully, or tby reason of any fraudulent repre­sentation
or mistake of fact in a material regard,
induced by such person; or
(c) Hold himself out as authorized to engage
i,1 the public practice of accountancy as a certified
public accountant under a false or assumed name; or
(2) · Any person, who, not being a certified
public accountant of the state, shall
(a) Hold himself out to be engaged in the public
practice of accountancy within the state as a certi­fied
pubic accountant; or
(b) Use in connection with his name any title or
designation tending to imply that he is engaged in the
public practice of accountancy as a certified public
accountant within the state ; or
( c) Use the title "certified public accountant"
or any abbreviation thereof or the letters "C. P. A.,"
in connection with his name, or with any trade name
or in the conduct within the state of any occupation
or profession involving or pertaining to the public
practice of accuntancy; or
(3) Any person, who, during the time his ce1:­tifica,
te or the inclorsement of his certificate as a certi­fied
public accountant shall be void, revoked or sus­pended
pursuant to thjs article, shall engage within
the state in the public practice of accountancy as a
certified public accountant, shall be guilty of a mis­demeanor.
Any such misdemeanor shall be punish­able
by imprisonment for not mot'e than one year.
or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars,
ur both such fine and imprisonment for each separate
offense.
( 4) All courts of special sessions within their
respective territorial jurisdictions are hereby em­powered
to try, hear and determine such misdemean­ors
without indictment, and ro impose the penalties
herein prescribed. ·
( S) Such misdemeanors shall be prosecuted by
the district attorney of the county wherein the same
are committed, or, if committed in two or more
counties, then by the district attorney of any one of
such counties, and at any time the attorney-general
may supersede any district attorney in the prosecu­tion
of any s·uch misdemeanor in any county.
(6) In addition to the criminal liability, impris­onment
and fine above provided, a civil penalty 1s
hereby prescribed and imposed, which shall be one
hundred dollars for each such ,offense hereinbefore
defined to be recovered by the attorney-general in an
action against the person or persons, including co r­porations,
who have committed any such offense or
offenses, which action shall be maintained in the
name of the people of the state. Such civil penalty
shall be cumulative, and when any such offense or
offenses, sha.Jl be committed in whole or in part upon
more than one day, such civil penalty shall be recoY­erable
for each such clay.
(7) The attorney-general, with the consent of
the commissioner of education, may compromise
claims for such penalties, and accept less than the
mnount claimed, or clue, before or after an action has
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Leen begun. No compromise may be made or ver­dict
rendered, except pursuant to section thirty-four
of the srtate finance law.
(8) Notwithstanding the prnvisions of any other
general, local or special law, all penalties, fees and
other moneys derived from the operation of the pro­,
·isions of this a11ticle sha.Jl be paid to the department,
and shall be available to the department together
with the appropriations made from time to time by
che legislature, for the payment of all salaries and
other p roper expenses incurred in the adrninis,tration
and enforcement of the provisions of this article, in­cluding
a sufficient amount to pay the salaries or
other compensation of such deputies, special deputies
or assistants as the attorney-general shall assign for
the enforcement of this ar.tide. On the thirtieth day
of June, beginning in rthe first year after this act takes
effect and each year thereafter, the department shall
pay any balance of such sums remaining in their
hand in>t:o the state treasury.
(9) The di splay or uttering within the state of a
card. sign, a·clvertisement or other printed, engraved
or written in sitrument or device bearing a person's
name in con junction with the words "certified public
accountant" or any ab'breviation tJhereof, or the letters
''C. P. A." shall be pi:ima facie evidence in any
prosecution, proceeding or hearing that the person
whose name is so displayed caused or procured the
display or uttering of such card, sign, advertisement
or other printed, engraved or wriit:ten instrument or
device an'd that such person is holding himself out
to be a certified public accountanrt. In any prose­cution
or proceeding under this article, evidence of
the commission of a s~.ngle act prohibited by th~s
article shall be sufficient to justify a conviction or the
recovery of any civil penalty as the case may .be
without evidence of a general course of conduct.
Sec. 1494. Revocation or suspension. The re­gents
shall revoke or shall suspend for a term to be
fixed by them, the certificate or the indorsement of
the certificate of any certified public accountant who
has been conviotecl of a felony under the laws of the
state or of the United States, or of any misdemeanor
as defined in this article, or of any atrocious crime
in any jurisdiction.
Sec. 1494-a. The same. The regents shall also
have power, upon the recommendation of the board,
and after clue notice and an oportunity to be heard,
tc revoke or suspend the certificate or the indorse­rnent
of the certificate of any certified public ac­countant
who is found guilty by the board or a
majority thereof, after clue notice and a hearing, of
any fraud or deceit in obtaining, either for himsflf
or for any any other person, either a certificate or an
inclorsement of a certificate of certified public ac­countant
issued pursuant to this article.
Sec. 1494-ib. Revocation of inclorsements. The
regents shall also have power, upon the recommenda­tion
o.f the board, and after due notice and an oppor­tunity
to be heard, to revoke or suspend the indorse­rnent
of the certificate of certified public accountant
issued to any person pursuant to section fourteen
hundred and ninety-two-a of this article upon
evidence that the duly constituted authorities of any
state or political subdivision of the U ni